ABSTRACT
EDWARD Cocker (1631-1676) was well known in his day as schoolmaster, calligrapher and engraver.! Shortly after his death, ' Cocker's Arithmetick,' 1678, and ' Cocker's Decimal Arithmetick,' 1685, brought him such fame among arithmeticians that "According to Cocker'' became a byword. Almos·t thirty years after his death, ' Cocker's English Dictionary,' 1704, established him as a lexicographer.
