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1611 King James & 1560 Geneva Bible : TWO Reference Editions ONLY $179

Original price was: $278.00.Current price is: $179.00.

The King James Bible is the most printed book in the history of the world, and it is our most popular facsimile reproduction. & The 1560 Geneva Bible, the 1st Bible brought to America

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Two Reference Editions King James & 1560 Geneva Bible

The video below shows our black 1611 KJV $139 Reduced-Size “Regular” Reference Edition; however, the $379 Full-Size “Deluxe” Edition and the $995 Full-Size “Super Deluxe” Leather Edition are also available.

The Reduced-Size “Regular”
Reference Edition of the 1611 King James & The 1560 Geneva Bible

We realize many people are not looking for a vast, beautiful display of the Bible. Still, instead, they seek an affordable copy of the original 1611 King James Bible to use as a desk reference or bookshelf-reference piece (like a dictionary)… or perhaps they just want a copy that is small enough to take to church and carry around for personal study. Indeed, many of our customers who purchase one of the gorgeous full-size editions detailed above also buy one of these affordable reduced-size editions for their daily study.

Our Reduced-Size Regular Edition Facsimile Reproduction of the 1611 First Edition King James Bible measures approximately 11 inches tall by 8.75 inches wide by 3.5 inches thick and weighs about 10 pounds. (So… it’s still a reasonably large and heavy book). The binding is made of hardcover black imitation leather with gold stamping along the spine. Each page was computer-scanned from the original and printed on heavy cream paper. In a much more manageable “medium-folio” size, rather than the original “giant pulpit folio” size, it remains an exact photographic duplicate of the first press run of the world’s most beloved book.

The 1560 Geneva Bible

The Geneva Bible was the “Bible of the Protestant Reformation” and the Bible of the Puritans and Pilgrims. It was the first Bible taken to America on the Mayflower. The Geneva Bible is the Bible upon which America was founded. You can imagine that most early American colonists, who were fleeing the religious oppression of the Anglican Church (Church of England), wanted nothing to do with the King James Bible of the Anglican Church!

Textually, the Geneva Bible offered several radical, never-before-seen changes: It was the first Bible in English to add numbered verses to each chapter of scripture. It was also the first Bible to introduce an easier-to-read “Roman Style Typeface” rather than the “Gothic Blackletter Style Typeface,” used exclusively in earlier Bibles. Another curious innovation in Geneva was the first “Study Bible” with extensive commentary notes in the margins.

The Geneva Bible is the version quoted hundreds of times by William Shakespeare in his plays. Also called the “Breeches Bible,” the Geneva Bible is the only Bible able to outsell and exceed the popularity of the King James Bible, as it did in the early 1600s until its printing ceased in 1644. One of the greatest ironies of history is that Protestants of all denominations today embrace the King James Version of the Bible (which reads 90% the same as the Geneva), even though the King James Version is not a Protestant Bible (it’s Anglican / Church of England). Most Protestants have never even heard of the Bible of their heritage: the Geneva Bible. It was produced by John Calvin, John Knox, Myles Coverdale, John Foxe, & other English refugees in ever-neutral Geneva, Switzerland… fleeing the persecution of the Roman Catholic Queen “Bloody” Mary in England. Mary would not tolerate the Protestant Geneva Bible, which proclaimed the Pope an “antichrist” in its commentary notes.

Bonus: ships with a genuine original pre-1650 King James Bible Leaf of a regular “non-premium” passage (a $59 value if purchased separately).

 

Please do not confuse our photographic facsimiles with small, cheap “reprints” you may have seen. For example, the popular Thomas Nelson or Hendrickson Publishers “1611 Edition” mass-marketed Bible is NOT a valid facsimile (nor do they claim it is). It is a new type setting in a strange semi-modern Roman-style face without the original woodcut decorative accents or beautiful Gothic Blackletter Style Typeface found in the original. Such reprints may maintain the ancient spellings, but they look nothing like an original 1611.


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Full-Size “Super Deluxe” Genuine Leather Heirloom Edition, Full-Size “Deluxe” Leatherette Edition, Genuine Leather Reference Edition, Reduced-Size “Regular” Reference Edition $139, Two Reduced-Size Regular Reference Edition $249, Reduced-Size Regular Reference Edition with 1560 Geneva Bible Facsimile $249