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Printed in two columns, in black letter. Two elaborate historiated title-pages; calendar printed in red & black; 16 (of 18) leaves of genealogies; double-page woodcut map; numerous woodcut initials. (folio) 38.7x26 cm. (15¼x10¼), period calf tooled in blind, rebacked with modern calf, new endpapers and flyleaves.

Handsome copy of the 1617 large folio edition of the King James Bible, one of the great classics of English letters and a monument of printing, printed in large black letter on thick paper.  An exceptional example, textually complete and including the rare map; it is lacking only two leaves of the Genealogies. Both the map and the genealogies were optional for purchase and are often not present. The 1617 edition is the third large folio edition of the King James Bible, preceded in large folio printings only by the 1611 first edition “Great He” and the 1613-11 “Great She” Bibles. Very rarely found in such complete condition. Herbert 353.