A review of Oxford’s Quartercentenary Edition of the King James Version (ISBN 9780199557608). This large volume includes the text of the 1611 KJV, printed in a 10 point Roman font. Words are spelled as they were in the original KJV, so that Genesis 1.2 reads, “And the earth was without forme, and voyd, and darkenesse was vpon the face of the deepe: and the Spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters.”

Text is formatted in a versebyverse manner, and the words of Christ are in black ink. The Apocryphal books are included in a separate section between the testaments, as was typical in KJVs until the 1820s. No concordance is included in this volume, but there is one blackandwhite map of Canaan.

This edition of the KJV includes a table of readings for Morning and Evening Prayer, used by the Church of England in that timeframe, and by KJV translators themselves. As a bonus, to give a sense for how the KJV translators worshiped God, I show the order for Morning Prayer from the 1559 Book of Common Prayer.

Contents:

00:00 Dimensions, margins, layout, font (four charts)
01:10 Size compared to Young’s Analytical Concordance, the Schuyler Canterbury, the CBP Turquoise, and the R.L. Allan 53BR
02:14 Page layout
03:35 Font in the text
04:50 Paper qualities
07:13 The words of Christ are in black
07:38 The Apocryphal books are included
08:09 An essay on the King James Version by Gordon Campbell
10:41 The list of errata
11:16 The head and tail bands, and the ribbons
11:43 The binding is sewn; it lies flat
12:36 The copyright page
12:53 The original title page
13:03 The Epistle Dedicatory
13:19 The Translators to the Reader
13:40 The Calendar: readings for Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer
14:23 The Almanac, showing dates for Easter and related feasts from 1603 to 1641
14:54 The table for calculating Easter
15:32 Holy days
16:03 The books of the Old and New Testaments (together with the Apocrypha)
16:17 The Great Seal of the Realm
17:05 Genealogies (not endless genealogies, but close: 35 pages!)
17:26 The map index and map of Canaan
17:54 The font compared to that in Nelson’s 1611 KJV
18:37 The font compared to that in the R.L. Allan Longprimer
19:12 The font compared to that in the CBP Turquoise
19:30 The font compared to that in the Schuyler Canterbury
21:05 An excursus on Morning Prayer – how the KJV translators worshipped God
24:31 Summary