1850 revision of the KJV

Alexander McClure indicated that the 1769 KJV was "the standard edition" until one was published in 1806 by Eyre and Strahan, printers to his Majesty (KJV TRANSLATORS REVIVED, p. 223).
Darlow and Moule reported: "Elaborate precautions were taken to secure the accuracy of this [1806] edition" (HISTORICAL CATALOGUE, p. 321).

I haven't come across to any references to a special 1850 edition of the KJV outside of KJV-only claims.

F. H. A. Scrivener adopted as the standard copy of the KJV for his study: the Cambridge 8 vol. edition 1858 (AUTHORIZED EDITION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE, p. 38). It might be that the 1850 date was first a misprint or typing error for this 1858 date, and the misprint was repeated by various other KJV-only advocates.

Another possible source of this 1850 date
is as a misprint of a date in a statement by
Peter Ruckman. Ruckman wrote: "At this writing, it is the Standard Edition, Octavo Reference Bible of 1852, as established by Gardiner Spring, Thomas Cook, Samuel H. Turner, Edward Robinson, Thomas Vermilye, John McClintock, and Richard S. Storrs, Jr." (DIFFERENCES IN KJV EDITIONS, p. 19).
I think that this 1852 standard edition was the one produced by the American Bible Society as their standard edition for six years before being withdrawn after protests, and it is no longer being printed. The present ABS edition may again
have some renderings in agreement with it, but their present ABS edition is not identical to this 1852 edition.

By the way, where did you obtain a copy of the 1762 Cambridge and 1769 Oxford? Do you have a copy of the original editions of them?

 

Just buy a Cambridge Bible, and you'll have a copy. I have a nice genuine leather text only that I use as my everyday preaching Bible. I like it because the cover and binding are the nicest of any Bible I have ever seen, and you can usually find one for less than $50, I only paid $30 off a clearance rack at a family bookstores.

Chad

 

In checking again, I find that the origin of
the 1850 date may be from a statement by
Peter Ruckman.

Ruckman wrote: "In taking seven revised
copies of the AV (1611, 1613, 1644, 1701,
1769, and 1850) that result in a purified
Book" (DIFFERENCES IN THE KING JAMES VERSION
EDITIONS, pp. 18-19).

I don't know where his 1850 date comes
from since I do not notice that he discusses
or mentions any actual 1850 edition.

 

Just buy a Cambridge Bible, and you'll have a copy.

Chad </font>[/QUOTE]Actually, present Cambridge editions of the KJV are not identical to the 1762 Cambridge edition. For example, present Cambridge editions
include many of the revisions made by Blayney in the 1769 Oxford edition.

David Norton indicated that Cambridge University Press silently abandoned the 1762 edition as "it followed the one proclaimed standard, Oxford's, almost entirely" (TEXTUAL HISTORY OF THE KJB, pp. 125-126).

I have a copy of a present-day Cambridge edition
identified as a "standard text edition."