Authorized Version/Bibliography

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Primary

Only complete texts (including Apocrypha) are listed here. 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 transcript of the 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, but most likely 1769
  • Norton critical edition: [15]; includes notes on archaic words and meanings
  • [16]

Secondary

• 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)