Edward Cocker
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title:
Edward Cocker
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Edward Cocker was an English engraver, who also taught writing and arithmetic. Cocker was the reputed author of the famous Arithmetick, the popularity of which has added a phrase to the list of English proverbialisms. He is credited with the authorship and execution of some fourteen sets of copy slips, one of which, Daniel's Copy-Book, ingraven by Edward Cocker, Philomath (1664), is preserved in the British Museum. Samuel Pepys, in his Diary, makes very favourable mention of Cocker, who appears
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English engraver
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Cocker
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2023-12-13T23:20:23Z
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