The Cambridge Clarion in goatskin leather. I use the KJV, but it comes in NASB, ESV, and NKJV as well. It is relatively compact, like a thick Pitt Minion, but of decent (9 pt) font, and is one-column and paragraphed, instead of the two-column. I recommend all of the translations it is available in. It has a superb binding, will last for decades, is beautiful and feels excellently in the hand, and is black-letter. It includes no notes, but the full text and apparatus of whichever translation you choose, plus tens of thousands of cross-references. Price: $60-160 (Calf Split, Calfskin, Goatskin, in ascending order of price).
The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible (KJV). It’s single-column, KJV, black-letter, and has a nice calfskin binding, but is lacking italics and has a somewhat weird recension of the KJV inside. Price: $60-100 (Full-grain Calfskin). Contains full Apocrypha/Catholic canon.
The Haydock Douay-Rheims Bible (DRC). This one is hardcover, with either a glued or a glued and sewn binding, and is massive (10x12") and weighs about eight pounds; it is not suited for carrying, or for reading in bed, but it contains the best notes - thousands upon thousands of them in small type, probably equal to about five to seven volumes of actual commentary - and one of the best translations (alongside the KJV and NKJV) available. The notes are actually faithful and extraordinarily orthodox, unlike the unbelieving infidelity of something like the NAB. The Church Fathers are quoted consistently, with the annotation encompassing the entire range of mainstream proto- and Tridentine Catholic thought from the Apostolic Age through the Eighteenth Century. The formatting is bad - it’s two-column verse-by-verse with few cross-references. Price: $100-120 (Bonded Leather over Board). Contains full Apocrypha/Catholic canon.
The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible - New Testament (RSV-2CE). For the NT only, this one is formatted decently, is an acceptable translation of the NT (the RSV-2CE - not recommended in the OT, but still better than the bad RSV-CE), and has excellent notes written by Scott Hahn. There are not nearly as many as are in the Haydock Bible. It has exceptionally thick pages for a Bible - like a normal book. It can be had in hardcover or paperback. (It can be had in leather, but Ignatius leather is not worth it; it’s extremely stiff pigskin or cowhide, and will not lay flat in the hand, even in a Bible without thick pages.) Price: $15-25 (Paper and Hardcover).
The Lutheran Study Bible (Concordia: ESV). This is my personal favorite study Bible. It can be had in hardcover, or, for a ridiculous price, bad leather. It is laid out decently, with print somewhat on the small side. It contains copious annotations from the Church Fathers through modern day commentators from a conservative Lutheran/evangelical catholic perspective. It is very catholic, if not quite Catholic; ignoring the “law and gospel” distinction, I have found less to disagree with in this Bible, and more to agree with, than in almost any other, and have learned more from it than any study Bible has a right to teach a Bible student of my experience. The Old Testament notes are exceptional, and, in common with the next entry, show Christ everywhere. The notes that are out of line with Catholic teaching, such as on Peter, are usually obvious. Highly Christocentric, sometimes to the exclusion of other emphases. Highest recommendations. Price: $40 (Hardcover). There is a matching volume of Lutheran Annotated Apocrypha, which is likewise excellent, and which got me interested in the Bible itself.
The Orthodox Study Bible (LXX and NKJV). Comes in bonded leather and hardcover. Mediocre to poor formatting. Contains very Christocentric notes in the OT, little that is objectionable to a Catholic, and, overall, a pretty good translation. However, the back-matter is useless, and the notes are very shallow and there aren’t many of them - however, they do a better job of showing Christ in the OT than anything except the Lutheran Bible above. Price: $25-40. Contains the full Apocrypha/Catholic canon plus two “truly apocryphal” (non-canonical, pseudepigraphic) works, 3 Maccabees and 1/3 Esdras.
These are the Bibles I would recommend most highly, taking both notes and text in to account. The Navarre Bible (10 vol., RSV-CE, $400) has excellent notes, but a sub-par text/translation. These are the Bibles I would actively “disrecommend” or warn against: NJB, any NAB/RE, CSSI TJB, any NRSV. Note, that beyond toxic notes, miracle-denial, de-Christianization of the OT, poisonous amounts of outdated skeptical-secular higher criticism, and poor English, ** the NAB/RE you can buy is not the one used for Mass; the one you can buy was rejected by the Vatican for liturgical use. The lectionary is a heavily revised text based on the NAB/RE to bring it in to line with the Catholic faith and various liturgical instructions. It is not available to anyone except in lectionary form - no Bible is printed with the “NAB” lectionary text (“NABRE-RE”? or “NAB-LE”?) - only lectionaries are.**
My daily reader is a seemingly little-known Catholic bible: the Confraternity (CCD) bible, the predecessor of the NAB. Produced form 1941-1969, the versions before 1953 have the Douay OT combined with a fresh, first-half 20th century American English vernacular NT. It was an in-progress update of the Douay-Rheims that, in finished form, was never published under a single cover, as it died when the NAB was adopted. I happened upon a leather bound 1949 version in excellent condition for $2 in a thrift store. Using a CPI calculator to adjust the original penciled-in 9.90 price, it would run $95 today.