King James Version merely a description. The use of Authorized Version or Authorised Version, capitalized and used as a name, is found as early as 1814. For some time before this, descriptive phrases such as "our present, and only publicly authorised version" (1783), "our Authorised version" (1792), and "the authorized version" (1801, uncapitalized) are found. The Oxford English Dictionary records a usage in 1824. In Britain, the 1611 translation is generally known as the "Authorised Version" today. As early as 1814, we find King James' version, evidently a descriptive phrase, being used. "The King James Version" is found, unequivocally used as a name,
The Beatles: The Authorised Biography that Davies provides a "fascinating essay" in the 2002 revised edition. Writing in "New Statesman" in 2012, Davies said he was hurt at the time by Lennon's dismissal of the book as "bullshit", and that he was still being asked to respond to Lennon's critique over 40 years later. Davies' official history remained the only authorised book about the Beatles' career until Harrison's 1980 autobiography, "I, Me, Mine", and McCartney's authorised biography, "Many Years from Now", written by Barry Miles and published in 1997. Miles, who says he regularly used "The Beatles" as a reference work for "Many Years from