<P> The original printing of the Authorized Version was published by Robert Barker, the King's Printer, in 1611 as a complete folio Bible . It was sold looseleaf for ten shillings, or bound for twelve . Robert Barker's father, Christopher, had, in 1589, been granted by Elizabeth I the title of royal Printer, with the perpetual Royal Privilege to print Bibles in England . Robert Barker invested very large sums in printing the new edition, and consequently ran into serious debt, such that he was compelled to sub-lease the privilege to two rival London printers, Bonham Norton and John Bill . It appears that it was initially intended that each printer would print a portion of the text, share printed sheets with the others, and split the proceeds . Bitter financial disputes broke out, as Barker accused Norton and Bill of concealing their profits, while Norton and Bill accused Barker of selling sheets properly due to them as partial Bibles for ready money . There followed decades of continual litigation, and consequent imprisonment for debt for members of the Barker and Norton printing dynasties, while each issued rival editions of the whole Bible . In 1629 the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge successfully managed to assert separate and prior royal licences for Bible printing, for their own university presses--and Cambridge University took the opportunity to print revised editions of the Authorized Version in 1629, and 1638 . The editors of these editions included John Bois and John Ward from the original translators . This did not, however, impede the commercial rivalries of the London printers, especially as the Barker family refused to allow any other printers access to the authoritative manuscript of the Authorized Version . </P> <P> Two editions of the whole Bible are recognized as having been produced in 1611, which may be distinguished by their rendering of Ruth 3: 15; the first edition reading "he went into the city", where the second reads "she went into the city ."; these are known colloquially as the "He" and "She" Bibles . </P> <P> The original printing was made before English spelling was standardized, and when printers, as a matter of course, expanded and contracted the spelling of the same words in different places, so as to achieve an even column of text . They set v for initial u and v, and u for u and v everywhere else . They used long s for non-final s . The glyph j occurs only after i, as in the final letter in a Roman numeral . Punctuation was relatively heavy, and differed from current practice . When space needed to be saved, the printers sometimes used ye for the, (replacing the Middle English thorn with the continental y), set ã for an or am (in the style of scribe's shorthand), and set & for and . On the contrary, on a few occasions, they appear to have inserted these words when they thought a line needed to be padded . Later printings regularized these spellings; the punctuation has also been standardized, but still varies from current usage norms . </P> <P> The first printing used a black letter typeface instead of a roman typeface, which itself made a political and a religious statement . Like the Great Bible and the Bishops' Bible, the Authorized Version was "appointed to be read in churches". It was a large folio volume meant for public use, not private devotion; the weight of the type mirrored the weight of establishment authority behind it . However, smaller editions and roman - type editions followed rapidly, e.g. quarto roman - type editions of the Bible in 1612 . This contrasted with the Geneva Bible, which was the first English Bible printed in a roman typeface (although black - letter editions, particularly in folio format, were issued later). </P>

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