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* * * * * * * * * FOOTNOTE * * * * * * * * *
This concludes the Preface of the 1611 Authorized Version
which was from the Translators and set to hand by:
Myles Smith of Brasenose College in Oxford
(who later became the Bishop of Gloucester.)
This version of the 1611 Preface with the spelling somewhat
modernized was printed as an appendix in 1935, the 400th
anniversary of the first printed English Bible, that by
Myles Coverdale, of which the King James Bible is the most
illustrious descendant.
The Preface can also be found in the editions since 1821 of
the English royal quarto, published by the Oxford University
Press, an expensive pulpit Bible. It can also be found in
full in A.W. Pollard's RECORDS OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE and as
an appendix in J.R. Dore's OLD BIBLES, 2nd edition.
It is a shame that neither the British and Foreign Bible
Society or the American Bible Society has never seem willing
to include the Preface (or an abbreviated form thereof) in
their Bibles for the last one hundred (plus) years.
It is also available from the Oxford and Cambridge presses
and the original can be found in the Huntington Library as
the Bridgewater collection of the first printing of the 1611.
Typed by Antonio F. Partigianoni, 101 Nelda Dr., Leesville,
LA 71446 (318) 239-7613, from a booklet edited by Edgar J.
Goodspeed, THE TRANSLATORS TO THE READER, Preface to the
King James Version 1611, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago,
and reprinted by Meredith Publications, 1030 South Santa
Anita Ave., Arcadia, CA. ($1 per copy eons ago). This
booklet contains an lengthy plea and justification by E.J.
Goodspeed for replacing the Preface into all future printings
of the KJV, the modernized version from the Coverdale 400th
anniversity appendix and photocopy of the original plates of
the Huntington Library original 1611 Preface.
I have done my best to faithfully transcribe the Preface
and elected to include footnotes and comments in brackets
within the text due to constraints of ascii printing. I did
not use an indented left margin should someone want to use
another word processor to read or reprint it. Both the KJV
modernized version of the Preface and Goodspeed's thesis
can be downloaded as 1611-KJV.ZIP from the better BBSes.
Hopefully, others will be good enough to send this along to other
networks and BBSes. With the help of Eric Gray from Tucson who
has a full-page scanner, I will soon be able to upload a copy of
the original plates of the 1611 Preface in the Old English. So,
be on the lookout for KJVPCX-01.ZIP to KJVPCX-xx where "xx" is
the number of files required to upload the PCX formatted files
honoring the normal 360k file size restriction.
Ciao and God bless,
Tony