Facts from 400 Years of KJV Editions

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This 500+ page book has data or facts from a partial examination of over 400 editions of the KJV printed from 1611 until today. These over 400 editions include over twenty editions printed in the 1600's, over ninety editions printed in the 1700's, over one hundred forty editions printed in the 1800's, and many printed in the 1900's and today.

This data demonstrates that the twenty to thirty or more varying editions of the KJV in print today are not identical in text to the 1769 Oxford edition of the KJV. There would be as many as 400 or more differences between the 1769 Oxford edition of the KJV and a typical present KJV edition.

 

This verse would indicate most of the over 400 editions of the KJV compared in this book.

1 Kings 8:56 [the LORD--NKJV]
the LORD (1675, 1679, 1709, 1715, 1720, 1728, 1729, 1746, 1747, 1749, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1758, 1762, 1765, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1777, 1778, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1787, 1788, 1791, 1792, 1795, 1795e, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1803, 1804, 1808, 1810, 1812, 1813, 1816, 1818, 1819, 1821, 1823, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1835, 1838, 1840, 1847, 1850, 1853, 1857, 1859, 1865, 1868, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1880, 1885, 1890, 1928, 1968, 1977 Oxford, 1952 PE, Oxford Classic, 1996 SSB, 2003 NPB) [1629, 1637, 1638, 1648, 1677, 1683, 1743, 1747, 1756, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763B, 1765, 1767, 1768, 1769, 1773, 1778, 1783, 1790, 1795, 1800, 1817, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1833, 1837, 1841, 1842, 1844, 1865, 1869, 1872, 1873, 1887, 1985, 2005, 2011 Cambridge, 1953 PM, CCR, CSTE, DKJB, 1972, 2011 Cameo, 2011 PMR, 2011 Transetto Text, 2011 Clarion] {1611, 1613, 1614, 1616, 1617, 1631, 1634, 1640, 1644, 1650, 1660, 1672, 1684, 1705, 1706, 1711, 1723, 1735, 1741, 1743, 1747, 1750, 1759, 1760, 1763, 1764, 1767, 1768, 1772, 1813, 1814, 1817, 1819, 1824, 1825, 1827, 1834, 1838, 1839, 1843, 1849, 1853, 1860, 1867, 1870, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1976 London} (1755 Oxon) (1638, 1714, 1715, 1722, 1729, 1735, 1756, 1760, 1764, 1766, 1769, 1787, 1789, 1791, 1793, 1802, 1806, 1810, 1820, 1827, 1842, 1851, 1858 Edinburgh) (1860, 1866 Glasgow) (1743, 1762, 1782, 1801 Dublin) (1700 MP) (1746 Leipzig) (1776 Pasham) (1777 Wood) (1782 Aitken) (1784 Piguent) (1785 Wilson) (1791, 1816 Collins) (1791 Thomas) (1796 Bowyer) (1801 Hopkins) (1802, 1813, 1815 Carey) (1803 Etheridge) (1804 Gower) (1804, 1808, 1828, 1833 MH) (1807, 1813 Johnson) (1809, 1810, 1818, 1826, 1828 Boston) (1811 Hewlett) (1810, 1814, 1822, 1831, 1832, 1835, 1839 Scott) (1815 Walpole) (1816 Albany) (1816, 1836, 1848 Hartford) (1817, 1843 Clarke) (1818 Holbrook) (1818, 1819, 1827, 1829, 1838, 1843, 1850, 1851, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1858, 1868, 1894, 1902, 1954, 1957, 1963, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1984, 1988, 2008 ABS) (1823, 1827 Smith) (1831 Brown) (1832 PSE) (1832 Wilbur) (1834 Coit) (1835 Towar) (1836 Stebbing) (1837 Cobbin) (1842 Girdlestone) (1843, 1856 AFBS) (1843 Robinson) (1845, 1854, 1857, 1876 Harding) (1846 Benson) (1846 Portland) (1847 Jenks) (1853 Butler) (1855 Perry) (1857 More) (1859, 1868 RTS) (1873 Cooke) (1876 Porter) (1895, 1958, 1997 NPC) (1897 ABU) (1905, 1945, 1989, 1991, 1998, 2004 World) (1910, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1975, 1999 Collins) (1911 TCE) (1923 NIB) (1924, 1958 Hertel) (1940, 1979-1, 1979-2, 1996, 1998, 2010, 2013 Holman) (1942 UBBH) (1948 WSE) (1952 Judson) (1957, 1964, 1988, 2007 TCRB) (1961, 1975, 1978, 2008 GID) (1965, 1968 Royal) (1966 SC) (GPB) (1972, 1976, 1987, 1989, 1991, 2001, 2002, 2003 TN) (1973 REG) (1973 WAP) (1975 CBP) (1975, 1985, 1990 Open) (1976 BH) (1976 OGH) (CSB) (RRB) (WMCRB) (1983, 1984, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2010 ZOND) (1984, 1991, 2008 AMG) (1987, 1988 IBS) (1987 Dugan) (KJRLB) (CB) (Nave’s) (CHSB) (1991, 2012 FWP) (1985 VB) (JVIPB) (RSB) (Dake’s) (1990’s, 2010 LCBP) (2000 Rainbow) (TLPSB) (Life) (MSB) (2002, 2010 KJVER) (2003, 2011, 2012 Barbour) (2003 IGC) (EB) (LPB) (TPB) (HPB) (2005 ICC) (2006 PENG) (2006 PP) (CNB) (VFC) (KJVCB) (2007 SFCB) (2008, 2010, 2011, 2011p HEND) (NHPB) (2008 Pilot) (2008, 2012 ROASB) (2009 Strand) (2010 Baker) (2010 BEAMS) (2010 BRO) (ASB) (2011 AMP) (APB) (2011 WB) (2011 PJB) (TBS-WT) (HMSB) (HKJVSB) (2012 F-S) (2012 Biblica) (NCE) (2014 TSB) (1833 WEB)
the Lord (SRB) {1795 London} (1774, 1777 Fortescu) (1790 Bolton) (1897 Mackail) (1947 SP) (DSB)

Here is a brief listing for the abbreviations used in identifying editions along with the years of publication and besides those identified by places of publication, or editors or printers of some of them.


ABS=American Bible Society
ABU=American Bible Union
AFBS=American and Foreign Bible Society
AMG=KJV edition of AMG Publishers and Spiros Zodhiates
AMP=AMProductions
APB=American Patriot’s Bible
APC=American Publishing Company
ASB=Archaeological Study Bible
BEAMS=Bible Education and Missionary Service
BH=Bible House
BRO=KJV edition published by D & H Brothers
CB=Companion Bible
CBP=Crusade Bible Publishers
CHSB=Christian Heritage Study Bible
CCR=Compact Concord Reference printed by Cambridge
CNB=Classic Note Bible
CSB=Criswell Study Bible
CSTE=Cambridge Standard Text Edition
DKJB=Defined King James Bible edited by D. A. Waite
DSB=The Defender’s Study Bible
e=elephant folio edition
EB=Evidence Bible by Ray Comfort--“Comfort-able KJV”
F-S=Freeman-Smith
FWP=First Word Publishers
GID=Gideons
GPB=KJV edition in 1973 Guideposts Parallel Bible
HEND=Henderickson Publishers
HKJVSB=Holman KJV Study Bible, 2012
HMSB=Henry Morris Study Bible, 2012
HPB=KJV edition in 2005 Hendrickson Parallel Bible
IBS=International Bible Society
IGC=Inspirational Gift Company
JVIPB=Jack Van Impe Prophecy Bible
KJRLB=King James Red Letter Bible
KJVCB=KJV Commentary Bible
KJVER=King James Easy-Reading Study Bible
LASB=Liberty Annotated Study Bible
LCBP=Local Church Bible Publishers
LPB=KJV edition in 1991 The Layman’s Parallel Bible
MH=Matthew Henry--KJV edition in editions of his commentary
MP=Matthew Poole--KJV edition in 1700 edition of his Annotations
MSB=Master Study Bible
NCE=Norton Critical Edition of KJV
NHPB=KJV edition in 2008 New Hendrickson Parallel Bible
NIB=The New Indexed Bible
NPB=New Pilgrim Bible
NPC=National Publishing Company
OGH=Old-Time Gospel Hour’s Faith Partners Edition of the KJV
PE=Pilgrim Edition
PENG=Penguin
PJB=Prayer Journey Bible
PM=Pitt Minion edition printed by Cambridge
PMR=Pitt Minion Reduced edition printed by Cambridge
PP=Paradise Press
PSE=Phinney’s Stereotype Edition
REG=Regency Publishing House
ROASB=Rock of Ages Study Bible
RRB=Rice Reference Bible
RSB=Ryrie Study Bible
RTS=Religious Tract Society
SC=Southwestern Company
SFCB=Standard Full Color Bible
SP=Spencer Press
SRB=Scofield Reference Bible
1996 SSB=Scofield Study Bible
TBS-WT=Trinitarian Bible Society--Windsor Text
TCE=Tercentenary Commemoration Edition
TCRB=Thompson Chain Reference Bible
TLPSB=Tim LaHaye Prophecy Study Bible
TN=Thomas Nelson
TPB=KJV edition in 2000 Today’s Parallel Bible
TSB=Teacher’s Study Bible published by Standard
UBBH=Universal Book and Bible House
VB=The Visualized Bible
VFC=elders of Victory Faith Centre--Matthew Verschuur
WAP=Word Aflame Press
WB=Waterproof Bible--KJV edition
WEB=Noah Webster’s 1833 edition or revision of KJV
WMCRB=Walter Martin’s Cults Reference Bible
WSE=Westminster Study Edition of KJV, 1948
ZOND=Zondervan