There have been five editions of the King James Bible — 1611, 1615, 1629, 1638, and 1769. (The 1769 edition is the one used in the vast majority of King James Bibles today.)

This historic volume preserves the original 1611 edition. Word for word and page for page, the text with its original marginal notes, the preface ("The Translators to the Reader"), and other introductory material appear as they first did. The text is complete with the Apocrypha, as was common in Bibles of the time. Alfred Pollard’s classic essay on pre-1611 English translations and the history of the King James Version is also included. This is the only word-for-word facsimile of the original 1611 Authorized Version in print today.