1920The year 1920 is to be marked by the visit to the United States and Canada of the most remarkable copy of the Sacred Scriptures ever produced. Weighing three-quarters of a ton, the volume stands 5 feet 2 inches high. It is 3 feet 6 inches across and when opened flat measures 7 feet 10 inches across the pages.
Carried in a specially constructed automobile with an attractive reading stand and platform, this wonderful book is to be the feature of a world-wide campaign for the popularizing of the Bible.
The campaign will start early in the new year and will be conducted by the Bible crusade of England, whose founder is William Henry Fry, grandson of the great English Quakeress, Elizabeth Fry.
Instead of being set in type and printed in a press, every verse of the Bible is being written by a different person and signed with his or her signature as a personal record of their belief in its teachings. So far about 2,000 texts have been written by the scribes, ranging from bishops to laborers.
Twelve large goatskins were required for the binding, which is in rich Levant Morocco leather of the finest quality. The book contains 175 sheets of stout paper boards. It is sewed with twine in the old-fashioned way round six stout hempen ropes. Each rope is thicker than the ordinary clothes-line.
To hasten the building of the book during the various processes of binding a staging was erected, from the cross beam of which depended an iron chain and pulley block, without which it would have required six men to manipulate the volume.
—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 2.
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