Manifold greatness is a collection of essays organised around the exhibition of the same name mounted in the Bodleian and Folger libraries on the occasion of the quatercentenary of the King James Bible. The learned editors of the volume are both members of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which holds the notes of the translator John Bois on the work of the revision committee. The publisher is the Bodleian Library, which holds the other great document of King James Bible scholarship, a copy of the Bishops' Bible annotated by the translators. These two treasures, the second of which has not been studied thoroughly, give the ‘Manifold Greatness’ exhibition the scholarly edge over its competitors. The design and visual appeal of this book have a similar edge; indeed the coloured illustrations leave the competitor volumes looking distinctly bland. The eight chapters are arranged to form a narrative that begins with an elegant survey (by Diarmaid MacCulloch and Elizabeth Solopova) of the Bible in England from the Anglo-Saxon to the Elizabethan periods, and ends with an appetising account (by Steven K. Galbraith) of the Bible holdings of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Other chapters describe the origins of the King James Bible project (by Judith Maltby and Helen Moore), the Oxford translators (by Julian Reid), the materials and methods (by Moore, Reid and Gareth Lloyd Jones), the cultural politics (by Maltby, Moore and Hannibal Hamlin), the afterlife of the King James Bible (by Peter McCullough and Valentine Cunningham) and the American dimension (by Hamlin). The overall scholarly standard is very high indeed, and the voices of the writers blend reasonably well, though styles vary considerably: at one extreme there is what may be the first example since Henry James of a comma and qualifying phrase after a definite article (‘Further, the, to his mind, odious Geneva Bible'), and at the other, there are two sentences beginning with 'too' ('Too, the learned liked to read'). There are no such lapses in the scholarship, though I did wonder whether Robinson Crusoe's use of 'remission' as he recalls Acts v.31 might not be his own (as is asserted here), because the term is used in Douai-Rheims. At its best, as in the brilliant account of the survival of Hebrew stylistic features in the King James Bible, the scholarship is exhilarating. The only scholarly point over which I hesitated is the assertion that James Montague was one of the translators in the Second Oxford Company (indeed, a photograph of his tomb is included); the same assertion was made earlier, in 2011, when Montague's participation was celebrated by Sidney Sussex College, in Cambridge. I am not at all certain that he was a translator. The lists of translators, which were drawn up in the spring of 1604, include ‘Mr Dean of Worcester’ amongst the members of the Second Oxford Company. At that point the dean was Richard Edes and, as Thomas Fuller affirmed later in the century, it was Edes that Bancroft had in mind. In the event, Edes died on 19 October, before work began, and on 20 December he was replaced as dean by James Montague; he was, however, replaced as a translator by John Aglionby, the principal of St Edmund Hall. The quatercentenary of the King James Bible has been a spur to scholarship, and this volume, which is at once scholarly, accessible and handsome to behold, is a fine example of how scholarship can serve the interests of the wider public.