Bible in a leather binding (with a fitted wooden case)

Book details:

Book size — 24.5 x 32.5 centimeters

Number of pages — 1,724

The leather cover is adorned with embossing

The book is printed on Bible paper

Full-color printing, icons adorned with gold

This new edition of the Bible is genuinely original in every respect — in the scholarly and ecclesiastical value of its text, and from an artistic standpoint as well.

"May God bless the publishers of the ancient Georgian text of the Bible and all who have labored for this holy work."

Thus did His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi, and Metropolitan of Bichvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia, bless those people who labored devotedly to establish the complete ancient Georgian text of the Bible and then to publish it — in precisely the remarkable form in which our Church has now acquired it as a great treasure, through the efforts of the Patriarchate of Georgia's publishing house "Alilo".

The text was worked on for years by the renowned philologist and theologian Edisher Chelidze; the icons were painted especially for this Bible by the iconographer Temur Kazakhashvili; and the text was adorned with ornamentation by Kristine Burjanadze.

In its production, the "Bible" was made with the finest technology and the best materials. The leather cover is adorned with original embossing, the designs for which were created specially for this book.

The icons have been rendered with advanced techniques set against a background of gold leaf. The book is printed on the finest-quality paper made especially for Bibles.

The blessing of His Holiness the Patriarch is attested by his personal signature, which His Holiness and Beatitude inscribed especially for our edition.

The book has been printed in a small run. Each copy comes with a personalized scroll bearing the name of its owner.

May the heart of each owner of this "Bible" be filled with joy in Christ

and shine with divine light.