The Holy Bible : conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly translated out of the originall tongues: & with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Maiesties speciall comandement. Appointed to be read in churches.

"The editors who passed the book through the press were Miles Smith ... and Thomas Bilson ..."--Brit. and For. Bible Soc., Hist. cat., v. 1, p. 134.
"The genealogies of Holy Scriptvres" is by John Speed.
Black letter; double columns, 59 lines to the full page; marginal readings. Without pagination, except the Genealogies, paged 1-34.
fol. 2a. "The epistle dedicatorie." 3 p.--fol. 3b. "The translators to the reader." 11 p.--fol. 9a. The calendar, in red and black. 12 p.--fol. 15a. "An almanacke for XXXIX. yeeres", in red and black. 1 p.--fol. 15b. "To finde Easter for euer", in red and black. 1 p.--fol. 16a. "The table and kalender." 1 p.--fol. 16b. "Proper lessons." 1 p.--fol. 17a. "Lessons proper for holy dayes." 1 p.--fol. 17b. "Proper Psalmes" and "Order of the Psalmes". 1 p.--fol. 18a. "Holy dayes." 1 p.--fol. 18b. "The names and order of all the bookes", printed wholly in black. 1 p.--fol. 19a. Blank.--fol. 19b. "The genealogies of Holy Scriptvres." 35 p.--ff. 37a, 38b. "An alphabeticall table of all the places mentioned in this land of Canaan." 2 p.--ff. 37b, 38a. Map of Canaan. "Begun by Mr. Iohn More continued and finished by Iohn Speede anno Domini 1611"; engraved on copper by Renold Elstrack. 2 p.
For full description and minute collation of the first and second issues of the 1611 edition, the 1613-11, 1613, 1617, 1634, and 1640 editions, see James Lenox, Early editions of King James' Bible, 1861; H. Cotton, Editions of the Bible, 1852; W.J. Loftie, A century of Bibles, 1872; Brit. and for. Bible soc., Hist. cat., v. 1, p. 133-136 (no. 240); John Rylands library, Manchester, The English Bible... 1899. Lea Wilson in his "Bibles.. in English," 1845, p. 97-100, gives a detailed description of these editions, with the exception of this first issue, which he apparently had not seen, his "first edition" being the so-called second issue.
New Testament: Printed title, within woodcut border representing the tents and shields of the 12 tribes, the 12 apostles and the 4 evangelists: "The Newe Testament of Our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ. Newly translated out of the originall Greeke: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by his Maiesties speciall commandement. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie. Anno Dom. 1611"; verso blank. [288] p.
No coat of arms on first page of Genealogies.
Old Testament and Apocrypha. [1140] p.
Sometimes called the great "He Bible". (Ruth iii, 15: "he went into the citie.") In the second issue of 1611, called the "She Bible", and in following editions, this passage reads "she went". The recto of the first leaf of the Genealogies in this copy is blank. According to Mr. Lenox other copies have a large woodcut of the royal arms with supporters and motto, the whole enclosed in a double rule, and beneath, the words "Cum ́Priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis". Lenox says (Early editions, p. 6) "The leaf in one of these forms, and usually with the royal arms on the recto is peculiar to this issue. I have never seen it in any other."
T.p. engraved on copper, the title within a design, with full length figures of Moses and Aaron at the sides and the four evangelists at the corners, signed: "C. Boel fecit in Richmont"; verso of t.p. blank.
T.p. mounted.