Cocker's Arithmetick : Being A Plain And Familiar Method, Suitable To The Mearest Capacity For The Full Understanding Of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught By The Ablest School-Masters In City And Country.
London: A Bettwsorth & C. Hitch. 46th. 8vo. Original Roan. pp. vi, 183. Some discolouring throughout and handwriting on back blank leaf. Original roan boards, sympathetically re-spined. Undated, though the 48th edition was published in 1736, and handwriting (back leaf) of an early owner is dated 1735. illustrated with mathematical tables throughout the text. Full title page: Cocker's Arithmetick : Being A Plain And Familiar Method, Suitable To The Mearest Capacity For The Full Understanding Of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught By The Ablest School-Masters In City And Country. Composed By Edward Cocker, Late Practitioner In The Arts Of Writing, Arithmetick, And Engraving. Being That So Long Since Promise'd To The World. Perused [Sic] And Published By John Hawkins Writing-Master. by George Fisher Accompt. Licenced Sept. 3. 1677. Roger L'Estrange. Edward Cocker (1631-1676) wrote this grammar school textbook along with another on decimal arithmetick, and it was published posthumously by John Hawkins in 1677. Hugely popular, mentioned and used by Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Johnson, it went into about 130 editions. Hawkins revised the work through different editions and it entered the vernacular with the phrase "according to Cocker" meaning "absolutely correct". An attractive neat 18th C copy of this classic 17th C work. Good. Item #017344
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