Authorized Version/Bibliography: Difference between revisions

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Complete texts (including Apocrypha). In each textual family books in print are listed first, followed by internet versions.

1611 textual family
- The Authorised Version of the English Bible 1611, 5 volumes (available separately), Cambridge University Press, originally published 1909, transcribed from an original copy, corrected from two others: [1]
- 400th-anniversary edition (source(s) unspecified), Oxford University Press: [2]; this edition carefully preserves the original misprints, including upside-down letters; seems to be the only edition including all the original preliminary pages
- searchable online transcript from unspecified source(s): [3]
- images of original copy: [4]
- images of copy of 2nd printing: [5]
1769 textual family
- Cambridge text: [6], [7]
- Oxford World's Classics edition, omits marginal notes: [8]
- American Bible Society 400th-anniversary edition: [9]
- searchable online Oxford text: [10]
1873 textual family
- Cambridge Paragraph Bible: [11]
2005 textual family
- New Cambridge Paragraph Bible, 2011 revision: [12]
- Penguin Classics edition, using the 2005 text with some corrections, and omitting the marginal notes: [13]
- Folio Society edition, 2 volumes (boxed set only): [14]
unspecified
- Norton critical edition: [15]; includes notes on archaic words and meanings
- [16]

The number of editions without Apocrypha is enormous. Nearly all belong to the 1769 textual family.

Benson Bobrick: The Making of the English Bible, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001
Melvyn Bragg: The Book of Books: the Radical Impact of the King James Bible 1611–2011, Hodder & Stoughton, 2011
Gordon Campbell: Bible: the Story of the King James Version 1611–2011, Oxford University Press, 2010
David Crystal: Begat: the King James Bible and the English Language, 978-0-19-958585-4, Oxford University Press, 2010
Alister McGrath: In the Beginning: the Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language and a Culture, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001
Adam Nicolson: When God Spoke English: the Making of the King James Bible, Harper, 2003
David Norton:
- The Textual History of the King James Bible, Cambridge University Press, 2005
- The King James Bible: a Short History from Tyndale to Today, Cambridge University Press, 2011
F.H.A. Scrivener, The Authorized Version of the English Bible (1611): Its Subsequent Reprints and Modern Representations, Cambridge University Press, 1884 (still in print)
Philip C. Stine, Four Hundred Years on the Best Seller List, [17] (Kindle)

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 **images of copy of 2nd printing: [http://www.bibles-online.net/1611/]
 *1769 textual family
-**Cambridge text: [http://www.cambridge.org/bibles/all-titles/kjv-cameo-reference-edition-apocrypha-kj455xra?format=BG], [http://www.cambridge.org/bibles/bible-versions/king-james-version/reference-editions/lectern/]
+**Cambridge text: [http://www.cambridge.org/bibles/all-titles/kjv-cameo-reference-edition-apocrypha-kj455xra?format=BG], [http://www.cambridge.org/bibles/all-titles/kjv-lectern-bible-apocrypha-black-goatskin-leather-over-boards-kj986xba?format=BG]
 **Oxford World's Classics edition, omits marginal notes: [http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199535941.do]
 **American Bible Society 400th-anniversary edition: [http://www.amazon.com/KJV-Apocrypha-Anniversary-Auxillary-Commemorative/dp/1585169870/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412002112&sr=1-3&keywords=king+james+apocrypha]