Wicked Bible

Wicked Bible

The Wicked Bible, sometimes called The Adulterous Bible or The Sinners' Bible is a term referring to the Bible published in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, which was meant to be a reprint of the King James Bible. The name is derived from the compositors' mistake: in the Ten Commandments ().

Bibliography

* Eisenstein, Elisabeth L. - "Rewolucja Gutenberga", translated by: Henryk Hollender, Prószyński i S-ka publishing, Warsaw 2004, ISBN 83-7180-774-0
* Ingelbart, Louis Edward - "Press Freedoms. A Descriptive Calendar of Concepts, Interpretations, Events, and Courts Actions, from 4000 B.C. to the Present", Greenwood Publishing 1987, ISBN 0313256365

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See also

Bible errata


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