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Macauley said: "If everything else in our language should
perish it (the Authorized Version] alone would
sufficce to show the whole extent of its beauty &
power."
King James Bible
represents the work of 50 committee members, & was seen
through the press by Miles Smith & Thomas Bilson.
It is recognzed that from 1611-14 there are 2 distinct
editions in various sizes.

Moule # 240 - 428 x 279 mm another copy 403 x 260 mm
(16 x 10 1/2")
revised #309 [1611?]
(folio 357 x 225)
2 separate editions [inserted] differ in many small details - but known "He & She"[end inserted] were put out in 1611. This version has
been revised several times - 1615-1629, 1638
Dr. Paris revised it for Cambridge in 1762
Dr. Blayney revised it for Oxford in 1768
Headlines, chapt. contents
marginal ref. and words not in the original
are printed in roman type; alternative &
other renderings [with] a very few notes in
the margins are in italics
"He" most prob. the earlier, unlike the "She" it is
homogeneous, while the latter "is made up in a very remarkable
manner not only [with] reprints but [illegible] it is often mixed
with the other issue, [with] the preliminary leaves of 1613, 17 &34."
- 1st issue of 1st edition
folio in Black Letter composed of 11 signatures & 714
leaves of text - 59 lines to column. Distinguished from
later issues by many errors in the text.
1640- usually admitted to be " the best & the last of the
Barker Black Letter folios, a reprint of the early
issues
Revised # 453
Moule #421. The last of the folio editions in large Black letter
printed between 1611-1640 - rules round the pages do not
meet at the corners. Marginal readings in roman type
instead of italics (432 x 273 mm) folio 363 x 230.
Generally agrees very closely [with earlier ed.]
Otto Ege Bible leaves
"He"
[size of text block on a page] 36.1 cm. x 22.3-4
[size of the leaf] 41 cm. x 27.5
"She"
[size of text block on a page] 36.2 cm. x 22.8
[size of the leaf] 39.8 x 26.2 cm
"A Ready Reference History of the English Bible" Rev. 1965 - American Biblo Society, N.Y.
-Santa Clara Library
King James Bible= "The Noblest monument in the English Language" - Lowes