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King James Bible (1611).
No copyright statement was included in the early printings as can be seen here.
Public domain outside of the United Kingdom.
We’re all very grateful that after disgracing John Wycliffe and brutally executing William Tyndale, England finally got a king who would authorise a quality Bible translation. This was the printed book that had more influence on our modern world than any other.
There were a number of printings of the KJB in 1611—the most famous being the ‘He-Bible’ and the ‘She-Bible’ (named after the ‘he/she went into town’ in Ruth 3:15). You’ll notice that there are no speech marks in the 1611 KJB (just as there are none in the Hebrew and Greek original manuscripts), but they were added by the time of the 1769 printings. Also note that there was no letter ‘J’ in the 1611 KJB, e.g., ‘John’ was spelt as ‘Iohn’ (and would have most likely still been pronounced as ‘Yon’ although that pronunciation was probably already beginning to change). Footnote markers PRECEDE the text that they concern, rather than the modern practice of having footnote markers follow the text.
Finally, note that the KJB included ‘The Bookes called Apocrypha’ as can be seen here, so an additional fourteen ‘bookes’ beyond the often-expected sixty-six.
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