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Scripture as a megabook: the King James text beside a monumental Victorian variorum apparatus, Gustave Doré's complete engravings, and the Greek New Testament of Westcott & Hort — the critical edition that changed biblical scholarship. Four doors into the most-printed book on earth.

Translations
The Holy Bible, King James Version
Authorized Version · printed 1837 · 1837 · 888 pages
The 1611 Authorized Version as the 19th century read it — the base text of English-speaking scripture.
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Commentary & Companions
The Variorum Teacher's Bible
Eyre & Spottiswoode · 1898 · 1939 pages
Nearly 2,000 pages: the KJV with variant readings and renderings from dozens of scholars compiled verse by verse — a megabook avant la lettre.
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Illustrated Editions
The Doré Bible Gallery
Gustave Doré · 1890 · 424 pages
Doré's celebrated engravings with facing descriptions — the images that fixed the Bible's look in the popular imagination.
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The Doré Bible Gallery — full captions (AI transcription)
Gustave Doré — transcribed from scans by Claude (AI) · 1890 · 424 pages
A far more complete transcription than the original OCR pass (208 of 424 pages carry real caption/description text; the rest are correctly identified as plates or blanks). Three pages were blocked by AI content filtering and are marked as such rather than silently skipped. Unverified.
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Original Languages
The New Testament in the Original Greek
Westcott & Hort · 1881 · 682 pages
The landmark 1881 critical Greek text, built from the oldest manuscripts.
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