1611 KING JAMES BIBLE 59 LINE PULPIT FOLIO 2nd ISSUE 1613- The Great She Bible

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1611 King James Holy Bible First Edition, Second Issue 1613 /1611

PRESENTING FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION EXQUISITE GENUINE  411 YEAR OLD  FIRST EDITION  1611  KING JAMES BIBLE, SECOND ISSUE, THE GREAT SHE BIBLE, PRINTED BY ROBERT BARKER AT LONDON IN  1613 / 1611. 59 LINE BLACK LETTER PULPIT FOLIO.  THE HISTORIC 1611 EDITION WAS ISSUED FIVE TIMES  IN THIS FORMAT : 1611, 1613, 1617, 1634, 1640. HERBERT # 319, D & M # 246, STC # 2224. Measures 16 x 11 x 5 ” . This Bible  is complete without facsimiles. Newly and beautifully rebound in dark brown calf with blind stamped covers in the Cambridge style and gold lined spine. Half-leather deluxe clamshell protective storage box is provided as well ($1500 value).

The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesties Speciall Commandement. Appointed to be read in Churches. London: Robert Barker, 1613-11.

A complete copy of the second folio edition of the King James Bible, known as the “Great She Bible”—named for the corrected rendering of Ruth 3;15- “she went into the citie”. Herbert notes, “The general title is usually dated 1613, though the NT title bears the date 1611.

Pulpit Folio printed in fancy old English black letter type font, text in double columns, 59 lines to the full column, printed within ruled borders with enclosed inner and outer margins for side-notes, roman type for chapter summaries, roman and italic for side-notes, General and New Testament titles within woodcut border (General Title mounted), almanac and calendar in red and black ink, woodcut historiated and decorated initials, headbands and tailpieces, engraved Speed 1611 map of Canaan and Speed’s Genealogies inserted before Genesis that is frequently defective or missing in copies of this edition (present here, with blemish). Damp Staining, foxing, smudging in places throughout, sometimes rather heavy. All in all a good and complete example with all original pages without the use of facsimile replacements.

Complete copies of the Great She Bible are highly desirable and uncommon.

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