The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version by Douay-Rheims

They enhance the sentimental value of the Bible as a Bible is passed on from generation to generation. I am in favour with having a Family Record in the Bible, and almost all the Bibles I have at home from Catholic Book Publishing Corporation have them. Some people may prefer verse numbers in this format or that used in The Jerusalem Bible that I will review.Īnother point worth mentioning is the Family Record used in this Bible. Yet, this is solely all personal preference. In a review that will come out soon, Random House’s The Jerusalem Bible uses a verse number formatting system that I find inefficient. This is, however, not the only Bible that I will be talking about the format of verse numbers. I am used to having Bibles that have large numbers to mark a chapter and superscripts that mark the verses. I am also not too keen with the verse numbers being the same size font as the text itself. (You can see the images for a better sense of what I’m talking about.) I don’t know if this was a word-processing error or that was the intention of the designers, but honestly, I found it to be odd, and my sister, upon flipping through this Bible remarked the same. However, this Bible, instead of a straight dotted line, uses a line of 3 dot intervals like this: Often times, when dotted lines are used to connect a header to its page number, a straight dotted line is used. First of all, the table of contents was in a sense, unusual. There are some critiques however, that I hope can be improved on in future editions. I can imagine the hard work that was put in to typeset this edition. Opening the book, I am greeted with nice clear typeface, and the size of the Scripture text is very easy on the eyes. I think that would fit better with the simple black cover. I would have preferred plain white or cream coloured end pages.

I am personally not a fan of such design – it just looked a little too hard on the eyes. However, getting to the end pages, I saw there was just row after row of blue bottony crosses. Very simple and clean design, nothing too fancy.

The book is hardcover, with black bonded leather, gold stamped with a bottony cross. Previously, Loreto Publications did have in stock copies of the Douay-Rheim’s Bible but it was not clean typeset, but rather looked like photocopies based on earlier reviews I have seen surfing around the internet. Loreto Publications, a publisher committed to delivering to Catholics beautiful reprints of traditional Catholic books, has just released copies a newly typeset edition of the Douay-Rheim’s Bible. While there are copies of it circulating in the public domain online, including, nothing beats a classic hardcover book that you can physically hold and flip in your hands. It has been translated directly from the Vulgate Bible, translated from ancient sources into Latin by St. One Bible translation favoured by traditional Catholics is the Douay-Rheims Bible.

The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version by Douay-Rheims