The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection
at
Bridwell
Library
September 8 - December 12, 2009
The King James Bible in Quarto
The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament and the New. London: Robert Barker, 1612.
A rare surviving example of the first quarto edition of the Kings James Bible, this printing was intended for personal instead of ecclesiastical use. It dispenses with the ceremonial “black-letter” type of the folio edition in favor of highly legible Roman type