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2 volumes. 1,356 pages. Initial letters illuminated by hand. (Folio) 45.5x32 cm. (18x12½"), bound in full morocco, blue covers and black spines with red strip separating them, spines lettered in gilt, all housed in large black cloth box with cloth lid. No. 83 of 150 copies from a total edition of 400 designed by Andrew Hoyem, printed at the Arion Press. 

A superb example of fine printing, one of the most important books to be produced by the Arion press of San Francisco, a massive lectern Bible of exquisite typographic beauty. The Arion Press employed both modern and traditional tools in producing this exquisite volume. The text was generated by computer for composition, ensuring textual accuracy. The data was then transmitted to the Monotype machine for casting individual pieces of type in lines to be made up in pages with handset type for display and printed on a two-color cylinder press, two pages per pressrun. Typecasting, printing, and binding were done on site by Arion staff, specially trained in the traditional crafts of bookmaking. The paper on which it is printed is mouldmade Somerset, manufactured from all-cotton fiber by the Inveresk Mill in England. The type is Romulus, designed by Jan Van Krimpen for the Enschede Foundry in the 1930’s. The book was available either as unbound sheets, bound in full linen, or in full goatskin (such as the present copy). The Arion Bible, praised for its cathedral-like grandeur and mastery of execution is a contemporary testament to fine press achievement. The Arion Press is widely considered the nation's leading publisher of fine press books, building on the tradition begun nearly a century before by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn at their Grabhorn Press. Prospectus and letter from publisher Andrew Hoyem to John Phelan laid in.