1611 King James First Edition Facsimile Reproductions

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1611 King James Bible: First Edition
Facsimile Reproduction – Regular & Deluxe Editions

The King James Bible is the most printed book in the history of the world. Here is what it looked like in its original form. We offer a very affordable 11” tall regular edition in bonded leather… and a 17” tall investment-grade deluxe limited edition slip-cased and bound in the finest calf with 100% rag cotton linen pages.

Any so-called “1611” King James Version you buy today at the local Christian Bookstore is absolutely NOT the 1611. .. it is the 1769 Baskerville Birmingham revision, even though it admits that nowhere, and may even say “1611” in the front… it’s just not true. Prepare to be shocked! The spellings have been revised, and some words changed, in almost every printing done since 1769, and fourteen entire books plus extra prefatory features have been removed from almost every printing done since 1885!

We can easily prove these claims; just compare our photographic 1611 facsimiles to your modern-day reprinting of the so-called “1611” by any major Bible publisher of the past century, and you will immediately see a huge difference. It’s true! “The camera does not lie.” A huge deception has been perpetrated on the public by the major Bible publishers for over a century now. If you really love the King James version, the only way to own a true, unaltered, unedited, unabridged, original 1611 version as authorized by King James, is to buy a genuine original from the Platinum Room of our Ancient Rare Bibles & Books section for prices well into six figures, OR buy one of our two exact photographic facsimile editions here.

The King James Bible is the only book in the world that can claim one billion copies in print. For many people, the English language Bible as we know it today IS the King James Bible. Original First Editions have sold for over $400,000 at recent auctions.
Our affordable facsimiles make it possible for everyone to have a First Edition.

The Regular Edition

Do not confuse our photographic facsimiles with small, cheap, "reprints" you may have seen. The popular Thomas Nelson or Hendrickson Publishers "1611 Edition" mass-marketed Bible, for example, is NOT a true facsimile (nor do they claim it is). It is a totally new type setting in a strange semi-modern Roman Style Type Face without the original woodcut decorative accents or beautiful Gothic Blackletter Style Typeface found in the original. Such reprints may maintain the ancient spellings, but they do not LOOK anything like an original 1611.

Our Regular Edition Facsimile Reproduction of the 1611 First Edition King James Bible measures approximately 11 inches tall by 8.75 inches wide by 3.5 inches thick. The binding is hardcover black bonded leather with gold stamping along the spine and on the front cover. Each page was computer-scanned from the original, and printed on heavy cream paper. There is no other facsimile of the 1611 like this for sale in the world. In a much more manageable "medium-folio" size, rather than the original "giant pulpit folio" size, it remains otherwise an exact photographic duplicate of the very first press run of world's most beloved book.

Our facsimiles are all computer-scanned images from a genuine original, transferred directly to paper to produce an exact likeness of the genuine source material without the slightest alteration of appearance (except for size in this case). This leather-bound edition is a wonderful and affordable display piece for your home, and it is big enough to be a "Family Bible". You will spend hours pouring over the magnificent typography and woodcut designs found in the original 1611.

Most people have never seen what the original King James Bible looks like, and having one in your home will provide you with a great conversation-piece, and an object of great beauty. For much less than the cost of the full-size deluxe limited edition below... it is a steal at the suggested retail price of $349… however, we offer it for $100 off that price. You may click on the small images at the very bottom of this page to view enlargements of the text from this facsimile.

ITEM # FR-KJB: $249 - The 1611 King James Bible Facsimile

SPECIAL BONUS: As our free gift to you, with your purchase of this facsimile; you will receive an early King James Bible Leaf. These leaves normally sell for $59 each!

FREE FAST SHIPPING: FED EX Second-Day Air Shipping and Insurance is INCLUDED on this item at NO CHARGE to you!

The Deluxe Full-Size Limited Edition

Here it is… the "Holy Grail" of book collectors everywhere… the "Bible to end all Bibles"… the First Edition of the beloved 1611 King James Bible. This faithful and exact reproduction of the very first King James Pulpit Bible is indeed a work of art and fine craftsmanship beyond compare. More than a "facsimile", it is a masterpiece.

Only one other exact full-size reproduction of the 1611 has ever been done (in 1961 by World Publishing as a 350th Anniversary Edition) and those…if you can find one… frequently sell for well over $3,000 each. Ours is of even superior quality to that one! As this is presently the only exact reproduction of the 1611 being produced in the world, we expect the prices to go up after the last one is sold … just like what happened with the 1961 production.

Measuring the exact size of the original 1611 printing: an enormous 17 ½ inches tall by 12 inches wide by 5 ½ inches thick (including its slipcase), and weighing so much it nearly takes two people to comfortably move it, this is the finest reproduction of the 1611 ever undertaken. Unlike our other facsimiles, this Deluxe Edition is printed on 100% rag cotton linen sheet (not wood-pulp paper), just like the original 1611. We even faithfully reproduced the small quantity of decorative red ink in the prefatory section.

Constructed of the highest quality of thick chocolate-brown leather over five layers of solid birch wooden boards with extra-heavy duty stitching and raised spine bands with gold spine stamping… no detail was overlooked. It even has the elaborate coat of arms of King James blind-stamped into the leather of the front cover! The slip case has a special raised bottom sleeve to totally support the weight of the pages when standing upright. Over $100,000 went into the set-up for production of this magnificent creation. It’s just like the real ones… visually IDENTICAL to an original 1611, and actually made out of the exact same materials as an original 1611… except that it is absolutely brand new, and less than one-half-of-one-percent the cost of the last 1611 sold at auction.

Each one is a hand-numbered limited edition of only 1,611 total copies made. We still have a few hundred copies available. These massive pulpit folios make a great centerpiece for the communion table or the entry-way in a church. They are also quite popular as centerpieces for private home libraries. If you are looking for something that will make people stop and stare… this is it! Photographs cannot adequately show what a stunning and magnificent display piece this enormous folio is.

We recently bought-out the remaining inventory from the manufacturer. His suggested retail price was $5,995 each, though he was actually selling them for $3,995. We thought you wouldn’t mind if we cut that price in half for our customers!

ITEM # FR-KJF-1: $1,995 - The Deluxe 1611 King James Bible Facsimile

SPECIAL BONUS: As our free gift to you, with your purchase of this Deluxe Edition facsimile; you will receive THREE (3) Leaves from 1611 King James Bible. You get a leaf from the New Testament, and from the Old Testament, and from the Apocrypha Section. This set of three huge pulpit folio 1611 leaves would sell for $765 if purchased separately.

FREE FAST SHIPPING: FED EX Second-Day Air Shipping and Insurance is INCLUDED on this item at NO CHARGE to you!


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