Folio. With an original leaf from the 1611 King James Bible comprising part of the Book of Leviticus. Original quarter cloth; publisher's slipcase. Provenance: James L. Thielman, book collector (bookplate).

LIMITED EDITION, one of 290 copies. The King James Bible was commissioned in 1604 by the sponsorship of King James VI and I with the ultimate aim of standardizing the Bible as much as possible. Its text was compiled from the eight most common editions then in circulation and was completed seven years later. This 1611 edition is sometimes referred to as the "She Bible" due to a typographical error in the first edition of Ruth 3:15, which reads "she went into the city" instead of "he went into the city." This mistake distinguishes it from later corrected versions, including the "He Bible" edition. cf. Joel Silver, "Catalog of the Exhibition," in: Disbound and Dispersed 23.

[With]: A Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible. John Livingston Lowes and Louis I. Newman, editors. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1937. Folio. With an original leaf from the 1611 King James Bible comprising the end of the first and beginning of the second chapter of the Book of Joshua. Original two-tone cloth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies. Chalmers, Disbound and Dispersed Checklist 72.