This Cambridge Clarion NASB is a high-quality, portable Bible featuring a soft, smooth calfskin cover with a paste-down liner that balances flexibility with structural integrity. Despite its “chunky” dimensions ($7.5 \times 5.5 \times 1.5$ inches), it remains lightweight and comfortable for extended one-handed reading. The aesthetic is classic, sporting gold-printed spine titles, tooled perimeter detailing, and art-gilt edges with red under gold. Internally, the 28gsm ivory paper is smooth and opaque, providing a high-contrast backdrop for the 8.75-point Lexicon No. 1 font. The text is expertly laid out in a single-column paragraph format with line-matching to minimize ghosting, ensuring a highly legible reading experience.
The edition is feature-rich, utilizing a side-column reference system that houses 96,000 entries along with comprehensive translation footnotes. While the layout includes traditional NASB bolded initial letters for mid-verse paragraphs—a carryover the reviewer finds slightly out of place—the overall typography remains spacious and clear. For deeper study, it includes an 84-page triple-column concordance and a robust 15-page map section printed on non-glossy paper with a color-coded index. This combination of premium materials and functional design makes it an excellent tool for both immersive reading and rigorous sermon preparation.
The Cambridge Clarion Reference Bible presents the text in a single column with the cross-references in the outer margin, giving the page a very well laid out appearance. The font size is a little under 9 point with generous line spacing. It is typeset in Lexicon No. 1, a modern digital font which has many of the characteristics usually associated with traditional Bible typefaces–in particular, a degree of readability more usually associated with much larger type.
The Clarion edition is the only NASB personal size reference Bible with a single-column paragraph format. The Bible has 15 new color maps and a concordance and there are two ribbon place markers. This is a Bible of the very highest quality, printed on India paper with art-gilt edges, Smyth-sewn for flexibility and endurance.
Customers praise the NASB Clarion Reference Edition for its excellent compact size and good value for money. The text is clear and easy to read, and specifically, one customer notes that the translation is precise. Customers appreciate the beautiful design and the soft goatskin cover that feels great in hand. The only drawback mentioned is that the paper is very thin.
- NASB 1995
- Black Goatskin Leather
- 2 Red Ribbon Markers
- Art Gilt edges
- 9-point Lexicon No. 1
- India Paper
- Cross references
- Concordance
- Black Letter text
- 18 cm x 13 cm x 3.5 cm or 7.2″ x 5.2″ x 1.4″ (textblock)
- 19 cm x 14 cm x 4.2 cm or 7.6″ x 5.6″ x 1.7″ (overall)
- Majority Paragraph Format, Verse-By-Verse in some of the Poetical Books
- Single Column, Paragraph Format
- 2028 Pages
- Cross References in outer Margin
- Smyth Sewn
- 15 color maps
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press
- Publication date : June 7, 2012
- Edition : GoatskinLeather
- Language : English
- Print length : 2064 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1107604141
- ISBN-13 : 978-1107604148
- Model: NS486:XE
- Item Weight : 1.98 lbs (0.9kg)
- Dimensions : 8.1 x 6 x 1.6 inches
- Typography: 8.75 point Lexicon
- Line Space: 10.5 point
- Page size: 180 x 131 mm
- Page extent: 2040pp.
- Spine width: c. 40mm.
