History of the English Bible
Author: first_name: John
last_name: Brown
Language: English
Year: 1912

The celebration of the Tercentenary of the  Authorized Version of the English Bible of 1611 has called into existence the little book here presented to the reader's notice.  It is the brief repetition of a story beginning in 670 A.D. and reaching on for twelve hundred years to 1879.  It takes us back to the Monastery of Whitby where Caedmon the monk paraphrased Scripture story in Saxon song, and brings us through the centuries to the Abbey of Westminster where a distinguished body of English sch