A rare first edition 1611 King James Bible, one of the only 175
in the world, has been found and is now taking center stage at a
collection of more than 300 other bibles at Stevenson
University, Maryland. The 17th century King James Bible edition,
which bares the printer's official dedication to King James, was
discovered a year ago at a Baltimore office of the Bible
Society, explained Joseph McGraw, a history professor at
Stevenson. "This is part of what public history is all about,"
McGraw shared. "Taking material that can be very dry and
bringing it to life. One of the easiest ways to do that is with
historical artifacts. They're almost like time machines." The
collection at the school's library is said to be a tool for
students to learn things such as "historical methods of
printing, and the ways churches and laypeople have used the
books throughout the last 500 years," the Baltimore Sun
reported. The first edition bible may have been lost and lay
forgotten for years because the Bible Society lacked the p