Admittedly, the info can be overwhelming as to what's what. Obviously, there have been many published, but the distinction is between an edition, and a version. The official chronology of the KJB involves just 5 years total that official editions were printed. After 1769, there was really no more need for another English edition, as the original work was completed by that edition. Anything more was and is just man meddling with the text to suit their own opinions, which usually leads back to the love of money.
Here's the chronology...
http://endtimesandcurrentevents.freesmfhosting.com/index.php/topic,38.msg15575.html#msg15575The four common years of editions of the 1611; 1629, 1638, 1762, 1769
An article on it's history...
The completed work was issued in 1611, the complete title page reading:
"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 Majesties Special Commandment. Appointed to be read in Churches. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie. ANNO DOM. 1611."
The New Testament had a separate title page, the whole of it reading:
"THE NEWE Testament of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST. Newly Translated out of the Originall Greeke: and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties speciall Commandment. IMPRINTED at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie. ANNO DOM. 1611. Cum Privilegio."
The King James Bible was, in its first editions, even larger than the Great Bible. It was printed in black letter with small italicized Roman type to represent those words not in the original languages.
A dedicatory epistle to King James, which also enhanced the completed work, recalled the King's desire that "there should be one more exact Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue." The translators expressed that they were "poor instruments to make GOD'S holy Truth to be yet more and more known" while at the same time recognizing that "Popish persons" sought to keep the people "in ignorance and darkness."
The Authorized Version, as it came to be called, went through several editions and revisions. Two notable editions were that of 1629, the first ever printed at Cambridge, and that of 1638, also at Cambridge, which was assisted by John Bois and Samuel Ward, two of the original translators. In 1657, the Parliament considered another revision, but it came to naught. The most important editions were those of the 1762 Cambridge revision by Thomas Paris, and the 1769 Oxford revision by Benjamin Blayney. One of the earliest concrdances was A Concordance to the Bible of the Last Translation, by John Down-ham, affixed to a printing of 1632.
The Authorized Version eclipsed all previous versions of the Bible. The Geneva Bible was last printed in 1644, but the notes continued to be published with the King James text. Subsequent versions of the Bible were likewise eclipsed, for the Authorized Version was the Bible until the advent of the Revised Version and ensuing modern translations. It is still accepted as such by its defenders, and recognized as so by its detractors. (cont.)
http://www.av1611.org/kjv/kjvhist.htmlAccording to that article, Cambridge published the 1762, and Oxford the 1769, but apparently Cambridge published a 1769 as well.
When I say "common years", those are the main years referenced, but obviously there were other "editions" that were technically "versions" published by other people, and not the original KJB group that completed their work with the 1769 edition.
Check this article out by Rick Norris...
http://endtimesandcurrentevents.freesmfhosting.com/index.php/topic,38.msg15572.html#msg15572This may not be a complete list of all the differences between the 1769 Oxford or even the 1795 Oxford and the present Oxford edition. Based on this evidence, are the Oxford KJV editions in print today every word the same as the 1769 Oxford edition?
The facts from these Oxford editions shows that all the updating was not finished by 1769. This evidence clearly shows that editors or printers after 1769 introduced some changes into the text of present Oxford KJV editions. This evidence affirms that the 1769 Oxford KJV edition was not "free from man-made error." Furthermore, this evidence indicates that the text of the present Oxford KJV in the Scofield Reference Bible is a post-1840 edition or likely even a post-1880 edition. Is the present Oxford standard edition no longer a "true edition" according to some KJV-only reasoning since it has alterations made after 1769, 1840, and even 1880?
I disagree with him in that while he's correct work on the text continued, it was not by the original group, but I get his overall point that the KJB continued to be changed to the point what we have today is not even what was originally available it's been changed so much.
Good luck finding a bible being published that is either the 1762 Paris Cambridge, or the 1769 Blaney Oxford text.
