Bible. English, King James version

folio (388 x 266mm.), FIRST EDITION, "She" issue with reading "she went into the citie" in Ruth iii.15, text in double columns with 59 lines in a full column, black letter, Calendar printed in red and black, genealogical tables by John Speed inserted before Genesis, New Testament dated 1611 and within wood-engraved border (showing the tents of the twelve tribes on the left, the Apostles on the right etc), vignettes, woodcut capital initials, seventeenth century calf decorated in blind, preserved in matching quarter brown morocco clamshell box, rebacked and recased preserving some of the original spine, repairs to covers, new endpapers, some leaves possibly from other copies, 24 leaves in modern facsimile ([Old Testament:] general title, A1-A2, N3-N4, 4P2-4P5; [New Testament:] G1-G5, R2-R5, S1-S6, X1), several leaves torn and repaired with some loss of text (e.g. [New Testament:] D2, D3, D4, D5 (this also supplied in facsimile), T1-T6, X6, Z1, 2A5 and 2A6 (these last two leaves also supplied in facsimile), leaves washed, some upper margins shaved, a few leaves with some minor worming in the inner margin

DMH 319; STC 2224

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FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT WORKS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (the other being the First Folio edition of Shakespeare's works, 1623). The King James Bible, also known as the Authorised version, was proposed at the Hampton Court Conference called by James I in 1604, and was result of five years work by 54 translators. Deeply indebted to previous translations (from Tyndale to Douai) it can justly be described as the triumphant culmination of eighty years of scholarship and study, and perhaps as the greatest work ever produced by a committee. Copies of the Great "She" Bible were made up of a combination of two different sets of sheets, so copies often vary.