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Early quarto black letter edition of the King James Bible, with the "she" reading in Ruth iii, 15. The main text is preceded by the genealogies, 34 pp., and the double-page woodcut map by John Speed (not issued with all copies), with printed text "A Description of Canaan..." on verso. The Old and New Testaments each have a elaborate woodcut title-page, the former dated 1613, the latter 1614. Following the New Testament are the Christian Reader and Book of Psalms. Herbert 331, noting it "closely resembles but is quite distinct from No 323," which was the first black letter quarto edition of King James' version.