Bibliography
THE WICKED BIBLE [STC 2nd edn 2296]
A full list of known Wicked Bibles will be published as part of Dr Chris Jones’s forthcoming catalogue; enquiries are welcome.
The Donnithorne-Christchurch Bible. The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the originall tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised: By His Maiesties speciall commandement. Appointed to be read in churches, By Robert Barker ..., and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, London, 1631. 8°. The Phil and Louise Donnithorne Family Trust, Christchurch, on long-term loan to the Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury.
Two Wicked Bibles may be consulted online:
London, British Library, C.24.a.41 is available via ProQuest’s Early English Books Online. [b&w only; requires an account]
Rome, Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma, 8. 22.D.28.3 is available as a colour scan via Google Books.
PRIMARY SOURCES
Gardiner, S.R. (ed.), Reports of Cases in the Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission, Camden Society, [S.l.], 1886, https://archive.org/details/reportscasesinc01commgoog/.
Greg, W.W. (ed.), A Companion to Arber: Being a calendar of documents in Edward Arber’s ‘Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554–1640’ with text and calendar of supplementary documents, Oxford Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1967, https://archive.org/details/companiontoarber0000greg.
Heylyn, P., Cyprianus anglicus, or, The history of the life and death of the Most Reverend and renowned prelate William, by divine providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... containing also the ecclesiastical history of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from his first rising till his death, Printed for A. Seile, London, 1668. [available via Early English Books Online]
Laud, W., The History of the Troubles and Trial of the Most Reverend Father in God and Blessed Martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, Rose and Crown, London, 1695.
Longstaffe, W.H.D. (ed.), The Acts of the High Commission Court within the Diocese of Durham, Surtees Society vol. 34, Whittaker & Co, London, 1858, https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/The_Acts_of_the_High_Commission_Court_Wi.html?id=IixSAAAAcAAJ&redir_esc=y.
SECONDARY SOURCES
Anon., ‘The Printers of the Wicked Bible in Court of High Commission’, The Bookworm: An illustrated treasury of old-time literature, 1, no. 10 (September 1888): 338–39.
Anon., ‘Le bible “perverse” de 1631’, Librarium: Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Bibliophilen-Gesellschaft, 5, no. 1 (1962): 31–35.
Ainsley, R., ‘Great Arse’, London Review of Books, Letters, 31, no. 15 (6 August 2009), https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n15/letters.
Campbell, G., Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611–2011, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010.
Clegg, C.S., Press Censorship in Jacobean England, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.
Handover, P.M., The ‘Wicked’ Bible and the King’s Printing House, Blackfriars, Priv. print. at the Office of the Times, formerly the King’s Printing House, [London], 1958.
Moseley, D., ‘“Not” Funny? Humour, Embarrassment, and the “Wicked Bible”’, unpublished MA dissertation, University of Canterbury, 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/14263.
Norton, D., The King James Bible: A short history from Tyndale to today, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011.
Plomer, H.R., ‘The King’s Printing House under the Stuarts’, The Library, new series, 2 (1901): 353–75.
Stedman, A., ‘Uncommon Justice: The court of High Commission in the early seventeenth century’, The Wicked Bible Project, ed. Chris Jones (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2024). [URL TO FOLLOW]
Stevens, H.N., Recollections of Mr James Lenox of New York, and the Formation of His Library, Henry Stevens & Son, London, 1886.
Wakely, M., ‘Printing and Double-Dealing in Jacobean England: Robert Barker, John Bill, and Bonham Norton’, The Library, 8, no. 2 (2007): 119–53.
REPORTS AND CATALOGUES
Askey, S., CN-04627 Wicked Bible Conservation Report, Sarah Askey, Wellington, 2021. [available for on-site consultation in the Macmillan Brown Library]
Darlow, T.H., and H.F. Moule, Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 2 vols, Kraus Reprint Corporation, New York, 1963/(London) 1903.
Herbert, A.S., Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible 1525–1961, The British and Foreign Bible Society and The American Bible Society, London and New York, 1968.
Taylor, Q., ‘The Donnithorne-Christchurch Wicked Bible: Technical and Bibliographic Report’, The Wicked Bible Project, ed. Chris Jones (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2024). [URL TO FOLLOW]