The Hendrickson Publishers roman-type 1611 reprint and the Thomas Nelson roman-type 1611 reprint were likely a reprint of the 1833 printing of the 1611 “He” edition in roman type by Oxford University Press.
Donald Brake noted that “Oxford published an exact reprint of the 1611 King James Version in 1833” and that Oxford’s intention was to publish the 1611 “letter for letter, retaining throughout the ancient mode of spelling and punctuation, and even the most manifest errors of the Press” (Visual History of the English Bible, p. 214). David Norton referred to “an exact reprint of the first edition, published by Oxford in 1833, a truly remarkable piece of work that reproduces all the quirks of the first edition, even inverted letters, with scarcely an error” (Textual History of the KJB, p. 119).
It may have been assumed by many that none of the printer’s errors in the 1611 edition had been corrected in the 1833 roman-type reproduction. Is it possible that a few times the 1833 roman-type reprints of the 1611 edition did not faithfully and accurately present and preserve every letter and detail in the original black-letter or Gothic-type 1611 edition as has been assumed and claimed?
One seeming difference between the original Gothic-type 1611 edition of the KJV and the later roman-type reprint 1611 edition by Thomas Nelson and by Hendrickson is at Nehemiah 4:10 [“beaters” in the original Gothic type while “bearers” is found in the Roman-type reprint]. A few other type-setting errors in the Gothic-type in the original 1611 edition at Exodus 11:2 [“silner”], at Leviticus 17:1 [“unco”], at Deuteronomy 4:34 [“stretehed”], at Judges 14:14 [“aud out”], at 1 Kings 1:5 [“horesemen”], at 1 Kings 1:53 [“king Solomou”], at 1 Kings 9:19 [“disired”], at 1 Chronicles 7:14 [“concn-bine”], at 1 Chronicles 28:15 [“silner”], at Psalm 31:24 [“strenghten”], at Psalm 55:23 [“line”], at Psalm 59:3 [“ate”], at Psalm 74:7 [“nawe”], at Psalm 79:5 [“for ener”], at Psalm 79:10 [“sernants”] at Proverbs 4:7 [“understranding”], at Proverbs 11:22 [“smines”], at Proverbs 27:5 [“lone”], at Isaiah 14:9 [“mooned”], at Isaiah 37:22 [“shakeu”], at Jeremiah 44:4 [“servantg], at Ezekiel 24:22 [“hane”], at Ezekiel 33:24 [“thoso”], at Ezekiel 42:16 [“weasured”], at Zechariah 4:1 [“wakeued”], at Mark 8:33 [“sanourest”], at Luke 7:20 [“thon”], at Luke 16:31 [“frdm”], at Luke 20:2 [“gane”], at Luke 20:10 [“theh us bandmen beat”], at John 7:18 “unrighteonsness”], at John 19:12 [“thencefore”], at Acts 2:27 [“corrnption”], at Acts 7:14 [“fifteeene”], at Romans 3:5 [“unrighteons”], at Galatians 1:13 [“couversation”], at 1 Thessalonians 2:9 [“labourng”], at Revelation 17:15 [“thon”], at Revelation 21:27 [“whatsoener”], and at Revelation 22:3 [“out the throne”] may not be preserved in the 1833 roman-type reprint of the 1611.
