EARLY ENGLISH PRI&TEt) BIBLES. 2Ot 



in 1582, and the Douai version of the Old Testament, made by 

 the College of Douai, in Flanders, published in 1610. These 

 form the Authorized Roman Catholic English Version of the 

 present day, and were made direct from the Latin Vulgate. 



We come now to the year 1611, in which was first printed, 

 in a large folio, our present Authorized Version, of which I 

 exhibit a very fine and perfect copy of the first issue, which goes 

 by the name of " The Great HE Bible," from the passage in 

 Ruth iii., 15, which is in this issue misprinted " and HE went into 

 the city" [Fig. VI.], as may be seen in the copy I exhibit. In the 



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FIG. VI. Authorized Version ; First issue, 1611. 



Facsimile of Euth iii., 15, containing the misprint "he" for 

 "she" in "and he went into the citie," from which this 

 is called the " He Bible." (Full size of original.) 



second issue, also dated 1611, the words are "and SHE went into 

 the city." This is therefore called " The Great SHE Bible." 

 Both these renderings occur in subsequent editions for some 

 years. There are also numerous other small differences between 



