The story of the English Bible has been many times written, up to a certain point. Lewis and Newcome and Strype, in the last century, Home and Cotton and Tregelles in our own, have treated of it with more or less completeness within the scope of their respective designs: while Anderson and Westcott have each in his department left little more to be recorded. But all these writers have stopped short when their narrative reached the completion of the version of 1611. Archdeacon Cotton, it is true, mentions a few editions here and there which were printed after that date, but his list only professes to notice those which were remarkable for some special reason. The catalogue of his own collection privately printed for Mr. Lea Wilson contains but few examples of the last version in comparison with his extensive list of the older Bibles. An American gentleman, Mr. Lenox, has printed some remarks on the early editions in his library ; but Mr. Fry is the first who has collated any large number of copies of King James's Bible. This indefatigable bibliographer has succeeded in establishing the distinctness of the first folios of 1611 and their successors up to 1640. After a long series of patient researches he has provided us with at least a ground-work from which any future historian may continue to build, but in confining his observations to the folios he is obliged to leave untold the more interesting half of the story.