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Selling the Word of God
The Early Commercial History of the English Bible
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The Bible is the most published text in history, and the story of its publication in the English language is extraordinary. Selling the Word of God traces its evolution from the first printed English New Testament of 1525 to the much celebrated King James Bible of...
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This is a history of the English Bible as a book. A book that in order to be read had first to be sold.
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The Bible is the most published text in history, and the story of its publication in the English language is extraordinary. Selling the Word of God traces its evolution from the first printed English New Testament of 1525 to the much celebrated King James Bible of 1611. By this date, readers could already choose from over a dozen English versions, each of them printed in vastly different ways. Behind each edition are stories of rivalries, mistakes, bankruptcies, and bestsellers. Far from being fixed, stable publications, Bibles were consistently undergoing change and development in the early modern period.
Creativity and enterprise were at the heart of the English Bible market, something that the usual focus on Bible translators has often overshadowed. Illustrated with early editions, Selling the Word of God considers how printers created new markets for Bibles, how they advertised them, and how they commissioned innovative forms of illustration and decoration to attract buyers. How, it asks, did the English Bible become a bestseller?
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781851246625
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 24 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bodleian Library
Illustration: 18 Illustrations, color; 32 Illustrations, black and white
Contributors:
- Foreword by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Harry Spillane is a historian at the University of Cambridge where he has been the Munby Fellow in Bibliography. Diarmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford.
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