Original Leaf from First Edition, First Issue of 1611 King James Bible

Description: KING JAMES BIBLE. Lowes, John Livington and Louis I. Newman. A Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible with “The Noblest Monument of English Prose” & “The Printing of the King James Bible”. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1937. First edition, one of 300 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press, cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, 15.5” by 10.5”, in fine condition with only spotting to the edges of the boards and pages. ORIGINAL LEAF FROM THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE ACCOMPANIED WITH IMPECCABLE DOCUMENTATION The volume of biblical essays by Lowes and Newman is accompanied with an original leaf containing two chapter head initial letters from the Book of Nehemiah with chapter VI and potions of chapters V and VII. This part of the book focuses on Nehemiah, a Jew who was high official with the Persian court, completing the rebuilding of the Jerusalem walls during the Second Temple period. The leaf is “from an incomplete copy of the rare first edition of the King James Version, the famous “He” Bible of 1611. Set in double columns and printed from black-letter type, the folio pages are handsome examples of early Seventeenth Century printing...”. THE LEAF CONTAINS IMPORTANT CHAPTERS FROM THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH REGARDING THE COMPLETION OF THE WALLS SURROUNDING JERUSALEM DURING THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD The King James Bible, commonly known as the Authorized Version, is undoubtedly the most influential of all English language versions of the Bible. Printing and the Mind of Man states that “It was the leader of the Puritan party, John Reynolds...who first suggested the idea of a new translation. The King took up the idea enthusiastically and gave it his full support. It has been described as ‘the only literary masterpiece ever to have been produced by a committee’ and was the work of nearly fifty translators, organized in six groups...They succeeded superbly in their aim, not to create a new translation, ‘but to make a good one better’, so that the noble prose of Tyndale and Coverdale remained the backbone of what Macaulay described as ‘a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.’”. No new English translation was produced until the Revised Version of 1881.

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