Holy Bible - King James Version 1611

About the book:

The King James Version in its original 1611 text the translation commissioned by James I and produced by a committee of forty-seven scholars that shaped the English language as profoundly as Shakespeare.

This is not the KJV most people encounter. The 1611 text predates the standardised spelling and punctuation of later editions, and reads differently with an archaism and density that modern revisions have smoothed away. Phrases that passed into the language so completely they no longer register as quotation the salt of the earth, a still small voice, the skin of my teeth, no new thing under the sun are here in their original cadence and context.

The most literary of the English Bible translations, and the one most embedded in centuries of poetry, prose, and thought. Milton read it. Blake absorbed it. Toni Morrison knew it by heart. To read the 1611 text is to read the book that built the literary tradition in English.

A significant edition of the most influential book in the English language.

Great secondhand condition.
Pages clean and well bound.
Mild fold in first page.

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