Description
Tentative Release Date is July 31, 2025!
From the 1611 King James Bible Museum comes the first ever thin, light weight, every day carry facsimile edition of the 1611 King James Bible. This unique 1611 Facsimile Edition is presented in an unaltered cover to cover format, including all original introductory materials found in the first ever printing of the world's most beloved bible.
Significance of the 1611 Edition KJV
At The KJV Store, we consider the KJV to be THE Bible in English, and we consider 1611 King James Bible Facsimile Editions to be the most authentic and authoritative representations of the original 1611 text.
Significance of the term “Facsimile”
Do not confuse these photographic "facsimiles" with the inexpensive, "reprints" such as the popular Hendrickson and Thomas Nelson "1611 Edition" mass-marketed Bibles, which are NOT true facsimiles (nor do they claim to be). They are a totally new type setting in a more semi-modern Roman Style Type Face without the original woodcut decorative accents or beautiful Gothic Blackletter Style Typeface found in the original 1611 KJV.
Such reprints may maintain the ancient spellings, as well as the inclusion of the Apocrypha, but they do not LOOK the same as an original 1611, nor do they maintain all of the original introductory materials. Now for the first time ever, you can have a true "Facsimile" in an every day carry sized 1611 bible and cover.
Distinctions & Features
- Genuine first edition reprint in its entirety of the 1611 King James Bible
- 7 x 11 x 1 1/2”
- Each page computer-scanned from an original 1611 Edition King James Bible
- Original Gothic Blackletter Style Typeface and “Wood Cut” Font Design
- Faux Soft Cover Leather Binding
- Available Colors include Black, Brown, or Tan
- Smyth Sewn Pages
- Deep Embossing Front and Side Cover
- Saddle Stitch Cover
- 35g Extra High Grade, White Bible Paper
- 3 Ribbon Markers
- Gold Gilded Paper Edges
- Light Weight for Easy Carry
- Durable Construction for Strong Use
- The text is complete with the Apocrypha, plus all original 1611 King James Bible prefatory materials, including:
- Original 1611 Title Page
- Original OT and NT Title Pages
- Original Translators to King James Dedication
- Original Translators to the Reader Letter
- Original Calendar
- Original Table of Contents Page
- Original Lion and Unicorn Crest Page
- Original Genealogies of Holy Scriptures and Jesus Christ
- Original Jerusalem and Holy Land Map
- Original Gothic Font (black letter font)
- Original Spellings
- Original Rubrication
- Original Art Work
- Original 39 OT Books
- Original 14 Apocrypha Books
- Original 27 NT Books
Apocrypha Book List:
- 1 Esdras
- 2 Esdras
- Tobit
- Judith
- Additions to Esther
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Ecclesiasticus
- Baruch, with the Epistle of Jeremiah
- Prayer of Azariah
- Susanna
- Bel and the Dragon
- Prayer of Manasseh
- 1 Maccabees
- 2 Maccabees
1611 Spelling Examples
These are subtle, but historically accurate details and signs that this is an original 1611 Facsimile, and merely "scratch the surface" of the treasures and distinctions to be found in this collector's edition 1611 King James Bible - Deluxe Facsimile.
Unique 1611 King James Spelling examples include:
- "Heaven" as "Heauen"
- "form" as "forme"
- "void" as "boyd"
- "upon" as "vpon"
- "and" as "aud"
- "Jesus" as "Iesus"
- "John as "Iohn"
- "James" as "Iames"
