19th Century Family Bible Style
Many of us in the 21st Century have desired to have a keepsake Bible that will last for many generations, but our ancestors never had one and the tradition has never been started.
It can start with you!
The original presentation page
In an effort to simulate some of the fine look of the late 1800’s through early 1900’s (Victorian era) family Bibles, we have crafted a special style called Leonard’s Family Bible Historical Style, available for both the oversized Bibles that are generally called “family Bibles” and personal study Bibles that are special to a family. Both usually contain a presentation page and “family pages” for recording people and events.
Why not give your family Bible the special cover it deserves, rather than the flimsy paper hardcover it came with?
Personal Size:
We can rebind a Medium to Large size personal Bible in this style. Our Family Bible Style features:
- Genuine hand-dyed English calfskin or natural goatskin leather
- Sculpted boards
Family Bible Style — front view
- Front, back, and spine blind-tooling
Your Personal size Family Bible on a shelf
- An applied leather title label. This can read simply “Holy Bible”, or it can bear the name of your family such as “Haley Family Bible”.
- Special head and tailbands, so much nicer than standard ones.
Fancy headbands in Family Bible Style
- Standard acid-free paper end pages
Acid-Free Paper End Pages
Ready to rebind your Bible as an heirloom for your family?
Or do you just love the look? (Nobody else will have one of these at church!)
Click here for the price list / order form.
Click here to find out more about the historical background for this style.
Family Size
Some of the publishers are printing new family Bibles – they just aren’t very impressive, and they can fall apart easily, not the best way to make something intended to be a family heirloom. But we can give a full-size modern family Bible that same, impressive built-to-last Victorian family Bible feel.
Two Family Bible Style rebinds
Sculpted Boards on Family Bible Style
These sculpted boards have the elegant feel you’ll want for your very own family Bible.
And here’s what you’d see inside:
End pages — Family Size
Genealogy pages in a Family Bible
Family pages, ready to record you and your family, ready to pass down to your descendants.
Whether you send us a new or used modern family Bible, one from the 50s, or even one you found from eBay that lost its cover somewhere along the line, we can make it look like a vintage book when it was new. Just find the text block you love and we’ll give it a new, stylish cover.
Ready to get started? Click here to find the price list for our 19th Century Family Bible Historical Style.
Click here to find out about the historical background for our Family Bible Style.