Ruth Walk's RSV New Testament

A review of a 1946 Revised Standard Version (RSV) New Testament. This book has a sewn binding and thick, opaque paper with art-gilt edges. It is printed in a large (12.5 pt), bold font in a single-column paragraph format, with references at page bottom. The cover is genuine leather. My copy was once owned by Miss Ruth Walk, who was a Methodist, at one time a sponsor of the Epworth League.

Detailed Contents:

00:00 Details: dimensions, margins, layout, font, paper … three charts
00:35 A King James Version New Testament given to me when I was six years old
00:53 A Zondervan 1984 New International Version (NIV) New Testament in bonded leather
01:17 A Crossway English Standard Version (ESV) New Testament in imitation leather
02:08 A newspaper clipping about Miss Ruth Walk’s birthday tea
02:52 Dimensions
03:22 Page dimensions
04:00 Font size in the text
05:14 The Revised Standard Version on the translation continuum; it is relatively literal
05:55 Font size in page-bottom references and translation notes
06:06 Paper qualities (color, paper weight, reflectivity, thickness)
06:50 Print non-uniformity
08:15 The words of Christ are in black!
08:56 The copyright page - Norwood Press
09:24 The preface
09:53 The genuine leather cover is thick and inflexible
10:06 The art-gilt edges
10:25 The ribbon marker
10:49 Sewn binding with overcast stitching
11:51 Cover wear
13:10 A partial tree of KJV descendants – the RSV is a great grandchild of the KJV
14:01 The people who gave this New Testament to Miss Ruth Walk on 3 April 1949
14:38 A second glance at the overcast stitching

[williamockham]

I found one of these in my local parish library!

[radical]

You gotta love these old fashioned bibles and books. I’m a big fan of them

[joest.eggbenedictus]

Wow that's a treasure! Beautiful Bible!

[gbantock]

I thought that this R.S.V. N.T. looked familiar, and then I recalled that I have an early  printing of the R.S.V. entire Bible  in two volumes, the N.T. looking much like the 1946 one here. I suspect that the O.T. in its own separate covers was meant for those who had the N.T. already to add the O.T. to the earlier published N.T.

[LuizCoelhoRodri]

Excelente vídeo ! Bíblias antigas e conservadas. Uma relíquia. (Brasil)

[Luke-qslv]

I've heard that the original RSV omits the ending of Mark and John 7:53-8:11 without putting it in a footnote or sectioning it off. Does your copy include those passages? Thanks!

[Airikbibles]

I really like this font😮😳 The spacing is excellent to my eyes.
The chapter numbers and also the uppercase letters look so cool, I wonder why they stopped using this font?
This new reinvention of the wheel printing endeavors are honestly not needed IMHO.

[Ironpirate]

Just curious, but do you work in the field of ministry or with books or something else involving the curating of old texts. I only ask because you know a great deal about these texts, and your presentations are very professional. Great Bible!