The Quire: The Berean Standard Bible · Single-Column Reader's Edition

The Quire: The Berean Standard Bible · Single-Column Reader's Edition

In production · Coming September 2027

The first printing will be funded through Kickstarter. Follow the project at plainsongpress.net to see the proofs and get word the day the campaign opens.

Scripture was written to be read: whole books, heard from beginning to end, in the shape their authors gave them. The Quire sets the Berean Standard Bible in a quiet, single-column page so you can do exactly that.

There are no section headings, footnotes, or cross-references breaking up the text. Prose is set in paragraphs and poetry in lines, so the narratives move like stories and the psalms and prophets read like the songs and oracles they are. Verse numbers are kept small, in navy, in the outer margin: there when you need to find your place, out of the way when you don't.

Each chapter opens with a centered heading, a brief summary in navy italic, and a hand-finished vine capital reversed out of solid navy. Running heads at the outer corners name every chapter on the page, so finding your place in the Psalms or the minor prophets is easy. Each book closes with the staurogram, the ancient tau-rho sign of the cross, a reminder that Christ is the cantus firmus beneath all of Scripture.

The details

• Text: Berean Standard Bible, complete Old and New Testaments, set verbatim from the July 2026 text
• Layout: single column; paragraphs for prose, lines for poetry; words of Christ in black
• Type: 10 pt serif on generous leading, with careful line breaking to keep hyphenation to a minimum
• Ink: two colors, black and deep navy
• Paper: thin, opaque Bible paper, line-matched so text does not show through between lines
• Binding: Smyth-sewn for durability and lay-flat reading
• Cover: genuine leather in black, navy, brown, or burgundy
• Finishing: gilt edges, rounded corners, head and tail bands, two ribbon markers
• Endsheets: printed navy, with a presentation page
• Slipcase: included
• Trim size: 5.375 × 8.5 in
• Pages: approximately 2,080

Typeset and published by Plainsong Press.