Bible. English, King James version, "She".

Folio (395 x 268mm.), text in double columns (59 lines to the page), black letter, letterpress divisional title within elaborate woodcut borders, woodcut initial capitals, vignettes, Genealogies inserted before Genesis (18 leaves, without map), contemporary blind-stamped calf, brass corner-pieces and central lozenge with remains of bosses on upper cover, lacking general title and B4 from Preliminary leaves and final leaf Aa6 (title and final leaf supplied in crude pen facsimile), one leaf of Genealogies torn, penultimate leaf Aa5 heavily torn and repaired,  Ll6 (Kings) torn at outer corner with loss of a few words, New Testament title torn at lower margin (not affecting border or text), M1 and Y6 (New Testament) missing lower corners affecting several words, many other lower corners of New Testament leaves torn and repaired sometimes slightly affecting text, early and last leaves sometimes damp-stained, creased or slightly torn or soiled, a few other marginal tears or tiny holes to the text, rebacked, new endpapers

The Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin

Herbert 319; STC 2224

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The second folio edition of the King James Bible, also known as the Authorised version, the first edition of "a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power" (T.B. Macaulay, 1828). This edition is the first with the reading "...and she went into the citie" at Ruth 3:15, and also bears the remarkable error of "Judas" for "Jesus" at Matthew 26:36 (here corrected in ink). It is believed that most of this edition was printed in 1611, but publication was delayed until 1613 (the latter date being most commonly found on the title page). About one third of the sheets exist in two different states, suggesting that Barker engaged in a significant amount of reprinting between 1611 and final publication. The reason for this has not been established. Initially proposed at the Hampton Court Conference called by James I in 1604, this translation was the result of five years work by fifty-four translators. More than that, it was deeply indebted to previous translations (from Tyndale to Douai) and can justly be described as the triumphant culmination of eighty years of laborious scholarship and translation.