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1769 Oxford Standardized Revision of the 1611 King James Bible Facsimile Edition
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The most requested facsimile ever is finally available for the first time in history!
In 1769 Dr. Benjamin Blayney completed his revision of the King James Bible and using Dr. Samuel Johnson’s first edition 1755 printing of the Johnson Dictionary, the English language “came of age.” Spelling, punctuation, and grammar became standardized making it possible to teach succeeding generations the fledgling languages’ establishment as a great spoken and written language in the world of communication, commerce and education.
Our most popular facsimile in all of our inventory is the 1611 First Edition King James Bible. There are a number of curious comments that we've heard about this exact facsimile and here are just a few:
- Why are these words spelled so funny?
- Why is this so difficult to read?
- Why are there so many punctuation errors?
- Why are there so many mistakes?
The answer is quite simple to these questions. When the first King James Bible was printed in 1611, there was not a dictionary available. There was also no standardized spelling for most complicated words. The truth is there were many printing mistakes and when Dr. Blayney finished - he had corrected more than 20,000 spelling and punctuation "mistakes" done by Robert Barker and his printing presses that produced the 1611 King James Bible.
While the original 1611 First Edition King James Bible remains our best-selling facsimile reproduction; most people are shocked to learn that the 1611 is actually not the source text used in nearly all published “King James Version” Bibles that have been printed for the past 250 years. In fact, it was the 1769 Standard Oxford Edition of the King James Version, as edited and compiled by Dr. Benjamin Blayney, which is the source text used by most Bible publishers to print “King James Version” Bibles for the past two and a half centuries up to today (NOTE: Most KJV Bibles of today primarily use the Oxford 1769 (Blayney) or the Cambridge 1762 (Paris) edition texts, as recommended by The KJV Store in our "1611 KJV vs. Regular KJV" Help Article).
Essentially, this 1769 edition is the first edition of the King James Version text that we all know and love today, however it has the additional feature of pre-dating the 1880’s removal of the 14 inter-testamental books called “Apocrypha”, which King James insisted on including in his 1611 edition and which were in nearly all Bibles from the very first Bibles up until the 1880’s. So you do have the full 80-Book Bible (including the Apocrypha) in this magnificent 1769 edition, just as you also do in the beloved 1611 original edition, in contrast to the King James Version Bibles printed from the 1880’s up to today which contain only the 66 Canonical Books.
Blayney made extensive use of Dr. Samuel Johnson’s 1755 First Edition of the English Language Dictionary, which sought to bring uniform and correct modern spelling, punctuation, and formally accepted rules of grammar, to the English language for the first time. However, beyond simply correcting more than 20,000 spelling and punctuation “mistakes” in the 1611 King James Bible, such as using modern spellings like “city” rather than “citie”; Blayney also initiated more than 400 corrections of wording. Here are just three examples:
Numbers 6: 14
1611 to 1768 KJV Bibles: one lamb without blemish
1769 to 2020 KJV Bibles: one ram without blemish
Ezekiel 24: 7
1611 to 1768 KJV Bibles: poured it upon the ground
1769 to 2020 KJV Bibles: poured it not upon the ground
John 15: 20
1611 to 1768 KJV Bibles: The servant is not greater than the Lord.
1769 to 2020 KJV Bibles: The servant is not greater than his lord.
Another improvement Blayney brought to the King James Version text, was to print it in a beautiful and easier-to-read Roman Typeface, rather than the fancy and much harder-to-read calligraphy-like 'Gothic Blackletter' Typeface of the 1611 edition. The Bible Museum has, however, preserved the wonderful Genealogy of Mankind from Adam to Christ and the John Speed Map of the Holy Land from the 1611 King James Bible, and included them in the prefatory area of this 1769 facsimile reproduction.
The Bible Museum is making it possible for every Bible loving person to own a facsimile of the first edition of the 1769 Revised Standard Oxford Edition King James Bible. This expert facsimile is designed to be displayed at an altar in your church, your business or your home. Available options of the 1769 Facsimile include:
Regular Edition:
These large format 1769 Family Bibles measure a huge 15 inches tall by 10.5 inches wide by 3 inches thick, and they are bound by hand using the most beautiful and most durable cover of Italian Fiscagoma Buffalino, a high-quality beautifully grained imitation leather, often referred to as "Fiscagomma Leatherette" or "Bufalino Fiscagomma", designed to last a lifetime of daily use.
This heirloom will be a true collector’s edition to be proudly displayed in observance of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation that we date from Martin Luther nailing the 95 Thesis to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany on October 31, 1517.
BONUS ITEM - The Forbidden Leaf-Book with 3 Ancient Bible Leaves!:
“The Forbidden Book” Leaf-Book is for those who want an understanding of how we got the English Bible that is deeper and more detailed than what you will find on most seminars of the subject. This 110-page spiral-bound book is the full syllabus for those who attend The Bible Museum's two-day series of eight one-hour lectures at the Bible History Symposium. It also contains a set of Three (2) genuine Original Ancient Bible Leaves inside the book, which many people choose to remove and frame.
This scholarly yet entertaining volume gives you “The Big Picture”. Featuring an expanded historical timeline, and several full-color pages. This book is a wonderful addition to any Christian’s library and an organized reference work that you will refer back to again and again. The amazing story of the preservation of God’s Word throughout the centuries is so vividly brought to life; we think you will find it hard to put this book down.
The real treasure of this package is the set of two ancient Bible Leaves. You get a page from an original King James Bible printed before 1650, and a page from a Geneva Bible printed before 1644, both with certificates of authenticity.
If purchased separately, the leaves alone, at $79.99 each, would cost $159.98. The Spiral-bound “Forbidden Book” is also a $25.00 value. So that is $184.98 of COMBINED total value if these items were purchased separately… and this entire package is included FREE with your purchase of this 1769 Oxford Facsimile!
Features:
- Exact Page-for-Page Photographic Duplicate and Replica of the 1769 Oxford Standardized Revision of the 1611 King James Bible
- Word-for-Word and Letter-for-Letter Original 1769 Oxford Standardized Revision of the 1611 King James Bible
- Includes the Apocrypha
- Regular Edition: Bufalino Fiscagomma Imitation Leather Binding (over birchwood boards)
- Printed on 100% acid-free, archival grade, Heavy Cream Paper
- Smyth Sewn Pages with extra heavy-duty stitching for page turning durability
- Dimensions: 10.5 x 15 x 3" (Regular Edition) and 10.5 x 16.5 x 3" (Deluxe Edition)
- Weighs over 20 Pounds
- Translator's Preface to King James / Epistle Dedicatory
- 1611 Preface "The Translators to the Reader"
- FREE The Forbidden Leaf-Book with 2 Ancient Bible Leaves
- FREE UPS Ground Shipping in the Continental U.S.
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
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**Please Note: These bibles are non-returnable.
