BIBLE IN ENGLISH: THE GREAT "SHE" BIBLE.The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. London: Robert Barker [1613] - 1611. Folio (390 x 257 mm). title and final leaf supplied in facsimile, lacking 2 quires A and F, and with 19 leaves supplied from a later edition, engraved map of Canaan by John Speed, loosely inserted, and with its margins restored with some loss. Title to New Testament title dated 1611, set within wide woodcut pictorial borders, wood-cut head and tail pieces, calendar and almanack printed in red and black, occasional light toning, a few upper margins cut slightly close to border line. Paneled calf, antique, red speckled edges. Collation: A1 (General Title, a facsimile of the He Bible and dated 1611), A2-4 (a2 margin slightly restored, a few restored holes affecting letters), B1-4, C1-6, D1-4: Quire A1-6 lacking (Title to genealogies and first 11 pages), B-E6, (Lacking quire F1-6), G-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Zzz6 (rrr1 outer and lower margins torn with loss), Aaaa-Zzzz6, Aaaaa-Ccccc6; New Testament: A-Z6 (with 15 leaves P1-6, S3-4, V5, X2-6 and Z3 all silked and damaged, and supplied from a shorter later edition, possibly the 1617 folio edition), 6A 1-5 supplied from another folio edition, 6A6 a facsimile leaf. Provenance: Exhibited by Mr. Young (of Leicester, UK) in the early 20th Century, with a printed and manuscript exhibition label, containing manuscript notes on the typographical errors in the "SHE" Bible, the label loosely inserted at the front. THE KING JAMES' GREAT "SHE' BIBLE, THE SECOND FOLIO EDITION, with the reading in Ruth 3:15 corrected to "She went into the citie," and with other errors including Matthew 26:36 where Judas appears for Jesus, but in this copy that error has been a corrected in an 18th century manuscript hand. The King James Great Bible is considered to be the most important English Bible to have been printed. The biblical scholar Francis Fry described the "SHE" Bible as the first edition second issue without reprints, printed within two years of the first issue to correct typographical errors that were found in the text. The King James Bible was drawn up to reconcile the versions of the bible used by the Clergy, on the one hand, and the laity on the other. The translators, who numbered around 50, were divided into committees based in Oxford. Cambridge and London, and they were instructed to take the Bishops Bible as their basis and then consult with Tyndale's, Coverdale's, Matthew's, Whitchurch's and the Geneva versions to come up with an authorized text. This copy, although with facsimile first and last leaves, and two quires lacking, is substantially complete. "From about the middle of the seventeenth century until the appearance of the Revised Bible of 1881-5, the King James' version reigned without rival"(Herbert 319). cf. PMM 114; STC 2224.
BIBLE IN ENGLISH: THE GREAT "SHE" BIBLE.The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. London: Robert Barker [1613] - 1611. Folio (390 x 257 mm). title and final leaf supplied in facsimile, lacking 2 quires A and F, and with 19 leaves supplied from a later edition, engraved map of Canaan by John Speed, loosely inserted, and with its margins restored with some loss. Title to New Testament title dated 1611, set within wide woodcut pictorial borders, wood-cut head and tail pieces, calendar and almanack printed in red and black, occasional light toning, a few upper margins cut slightly close to border line. Paneled calf, antique, red speckled edges. Collation: A1 (General Title, a facsimile of the He Bible and dated 1611), A2-4 (a2 margin slightly restored, a few restored holes affecting letters), B1-4, C1-6, D1-4: Quire A1-6 lacking (Title to genealogies and first 11 pages), B-E6, (Lacking quire F1-6), G-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Zzz6 (rrr1 outer and lower margins torn with loss), Aaaa-Zzzz6, Aaaaa-Ccccc6; New Testament: A-Z6 (with 15 leaves P1-6, S3-4, V5, X2-6 and Z3 all silked and damaged, and supplied from a shorter later edition, possibly the 1617 folio edition), 6A 1-5 supplied from another folio edition, 6A6 a facsimile leaf. Provenance: Exhibited by Mr. Young (of Leicester, UK) in the early 20th Century, with a printed and manuscript exhibition label, containing manuscript notes on the typographical errors in the "SHE" Bible, the label loosely inserted at the front. THE KING JAMES' GREAT "SHE' BIBLE, THE SECOND FOLIO EDITION, with the reading in Ruth 3:15 corrected to "She went into the citie," and with other errors including Matthew 26:36 where Judas appears for Jesus, but in this copy that error has been a corrected in an 18th century manuscript hand. The King James Great Bible is considered to be the most important English Bible to have been printed. The biblical scholar Francis Fry described the "SHE" Bible as the first edition second issue without reprints, printed within two years of the first issue to correct typographical errors that were found in the text. The King James Bible was drawn up to reconcile the versions of the bible used by the Clergy, on the one hand, and the laity on the other. The translators, who numbered around 50, were divided into committees based in Oxford. Cambridge and London, and they were instructed to take the Bishops Bible as their basis and then consult with Tyndale's, Coverdale's, Matthew's, Whitchurch's and the Geneva versions to come up with an authorized text. This copy, although with facsimile first and last leaves, and two quires lacking, is substantially complete. "From about the middle of the seventeenth century until the appearance of the Revised Bible of 1881-5, the King James' version reigned without rival"(Herbert 319). cf. PMM 114; STC 2224.
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