Player's Handbook (D&D 4e) (2008)

From the back cover:

THE WORLD NEEDS HEROES.

In a fantastic world of magic and monsters, a new age of adventure unfolds. This core rulebook for the Dungeons & Dragons® Roleplaying Game provides everything players need to create and run heroic characters through legendary dungeons of dread.

The Player's Handbook® features the 4th edition game rules, including character creation, combat and adventuring, classes and races, equipment and magic items, skills, feats, powers, and more.

Publisher blurb:

The first of three core rulebooks for the 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game.

The Player's Handbook presents the official Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game rules as well as everything a player needs to create D&D characters worthy of song and legend: new character races, base classes, paragon paths, epic destinies, powers, more magic items, weapons, armor, and much more.

From Credits Page - not linked above:

Building on the Design of Previous Editions by E. Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson (1st Edition and earlier); David "Zeb" Cook (2nd Edition); Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, Peter Adkison (3rd Edition)

Dedicated to the memory of E. Gary Gygax