The Humble Lamb KJV Lion

I’m excited to be reviewing my first ever King James Bible. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been reviewing Bibles for about two years now, but have never tackled a KJV, yet here I am. Today I’ll be reviewing the Humble Lamb KJV Lion in Green goatskin.

There’s a lot to like about this Bible, but also one thing that is highly controversial. Let’s jump into it.

Packaging

My Bible came in a beautiful box that is green on the top with a white lion logo and the word "Lion". This Bibles comes in several different colors and I imagine that the box color changes depending on what color you get.

Outer Materials

The Bible is a green Meritian goatskin. It’s soft and feels nice to the touch. The spine has six tooled bars instead of hubs and written in gold is "THE WORD OF GOD", "Authorized KJV", "Meritian Goatskin", and the Humble Lamb logo. The Bible has brown head and tail bands, three beautiful light brown, double-sided satin ribbon bookmarks, and a very unique green under gold art gilt on the page edges. The Bible is Smyth-sewn.

I feel like Humble Lamb went bold on their color choices for this Bible and it really paid off. You don’t often see green under gold, but it provides a really fun and unique look, especially when the Bible is laying open.

Inner Materials

Inside is a brown, paste-down vinyl liner with matching end sheets. I don’t typically like paste-down liners, but honestly this liner feels amazing and the end sheets have the same texture. I don’t exactly know what Humble Lamb did here, but I’m really impressed by it.

Continuing on, there is a presentation page and then you come to a page that says for every Bible purchased, Humble Lamb will give a new budget Bible to someone in need. This is really cool and a great thing to do. Humble Lamb is apparently like the Toms Shoes of Bible companies and that’s definitely not a bad thing.

The paper used in this Bible is a nice, thick 36 gsm. The text looks line-matched and there is almost no ghosting. The page layout is a double-column, verse-by-verse type setting. A pilcrow symbol is used to indicate new paragraphs. Cross references and textual notes are found in a single column on the bottom of each page.

Font

The font is a generous 11 point and it’s very easy on the eyes. New chapters start with a white drop cap that is outlined in a blue box. Also unique to this Bible, words of Christ are in blue. To be honest, you really have to look to notice the difference between the blue and black letter and I’m not sure I consider that a bad thing. For those who aren’t fans of red letter text, this should be no problem. For those who like words of Christ in a different color text, it is there in the blue. This could be the best of both worlds.

Other Features

Another unique feature of this Bible is that it features illustrations by Gustavo Dore throughout it. This is a feature that I would’ve been happy for Humble Lamb to have omitted. I’m sure there are some who love this feature, which is why I would say it is controversial. These illustrations include images of Christ. There are many Christians who believe this to be a violation of the second commandment and this certainly is not the Bible for them. Others will have no problem with it. It’s a design choice I certainly wouldn’t have made if I was Humble Lamb, but they obviously thought it added something to their Bible.

Rounding out this Bible is a robust, three-column concordance and several full-color maps on glossy card stock.

Humble Lamb has made a truly unique Bible. It has some really nice features. I do wish they had chosen not to include images of Christ, however, at $129.00 I think those who love the KJV will find this to be a great Bible with some really nice and unique inclusions. Pick up your copy of the KJV Lion on Humble Lamb’s website.

Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this Bible from Humble Lamb in exchange for a fair and honest review.