The design, by Paul Stafford and Benjamin Wright shows the biblical quote ‘In the beginning was the word’ as type and as printing blocks in negative, to the left. Started in 1604 and finished in 1611, the English translation of the bible (from Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and Latin) commissioned by King James I was to be the new authorised English language version of the bible.
The edge reads: THE AUTHORISED VERSION
2011 King James Bible
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