Published on the occasion of two exhibitions, held in 2011 at the Bodleian Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library respectively, celebrating the 400th centenary of the publication of the King James Bible
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-205) and index
Before the King James Bible / Diarmaid MacCulloch and Elizabeth Solopova -- Origins of the project / Judith Maltby and Helen Moore -- The Oxford translators / Julian Reid -- Materials and methods / Gareth Lloyd Jones, Helen Moore and Julian Reid -- The 1611 King James Bible and its cultural politics / Hannibal Hamlin, Judith Maltby and Helen Moore -- Afterlives of the King James Bible, 1611-1769 / Peter McCullough and Valentine Cunningham -- The King James Bible in America / Hannibal Hamlin -- The lives of early English Bibles : treasures from the Folger Shakespeare Library / Steven K. Galbraith -- The translators of the King James Bible
