The 1611 King James Bible: Complete Original Spelling Edition

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.

Author: Gordon Campbell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 06/25/2026
Pages: 1584
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.63lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.62w x 1.90d
ISBN13: 9780198963301
ISBN10: 0198963300
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | General
- Bibles | General

About the Author
Gordon Campbell, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester

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).