File:KJV-King-James-Version-Bible-first-edition-title-page-1611.jpg

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English: Frontispiece to the King James' Bible, 1611, shows the Twelve Apostles at the top. Moses and Aaron flank the central text. In the four corners sit Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, authors of the four gospels, with their symbolic animals. At the top, over the Holy Spirit in a form of a dove, is the Tetragrammaton "יהוה" ("YHWH").

The title page text reads:
THE HOLY BIBLE,
Conteyning the Old Teſtament,
AND THE NEW:
Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties speciall Comandement.
Appointed to be read in Churches.
Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings moſt Excellent Maiestie.
ANNO DOM. 1611 .

At bottom is "C. Boel ſecit in Richmont."
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Source http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=kjbible&PagePosition=1 Color level (pick white point), cropped, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.6.6. Original jpgs from this source URL moved to http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/print/1882817
Author Church of England
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