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This landmark publication presents the most faithful edition of the 1611 King James Bible available today. It reproduces the seventeenth-century text in roman type-page for page, line for line, and letter for letter-including original spellings and the typesetting errors made by the first printers. Also included are reproductions of the original illustrated initial letters as well as the full preliminaries such as the Epistle Dedicatorie to King James, the prefatory note from the Translators to the Reader, and the biblical genealogies. This convenient paperback edition now includes a full introduction and detailed annotations of the preliminary pages.

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Gordon Campbell is a Renaissance and seventeenth-century specialist with particular interests in John Milton and in the history of the Bible. Broader interests in cultural history on which he publishes include art, architecture, classical antiquity, ecclesiastical history, garden history, historical theology, and the Nordic world. Campbell is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Member of Academia Europaea, has two honorary doctorates and a Longman — History Today Trustees Award (for lifetime contribution to History).

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