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  Cocker's decimal arithmetick wherein is shewed the nature and use of decimal fractions ... together with tables of interest and rebate ... : whereunto is added, his Artificial arithmetick, shewing the genesis ... of the logarithmes ... : also, his Algebraical arithmetick, containing the doctrine of composing and resolving an equation, with all other rules requisite for the understanding of that mysterious art according to the method used by Mr. John Kerley in his incomparable treatise of algebra / composed by Edward Cocker ... ; perused, corrected, and published by John Hawkins ...
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675. ; Hawkins, John, 17th cent.
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  Advertisements: p. [16]. Reproduction of original in British Library.
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  Cockers arithmetick being a plain and familiar method suitable to the meanest capacity for the full understanding of that incomparable art as it is now taught by the ablest school-masters in city and countrey / composed by Edward Cocker ... ; perused and published by John Hawkins ...
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675. ; Hawkins, John, 17th cent.
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  Considered to be a forgery of Hawkins by De Morgan, A. Arithmetical books, 1847, p. 56-62, but see DNB under Cocker. Perhaps based on Cocker's "Tutor to arithmetic" entered in Stationers register June 23, 1664. "Licensed ...
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  The clerk's tutor for writing Written and engraved by Edw. Cocker.
  Date of publication:
  1667
  

  Author(s):

  Hawkins, John, 17th cent. ; Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675. Young clerk's tutor for writing.
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  Engraved t.p. containing a perpetual almanac; six leaves of writing specimens. "This book is by Hawkins ... and the t.p. only claims the plates, not the letterpress for Cocker"--DNB (concerning The young clerk's tutor for ...
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  The English school-master compleated containing several tables of common English words, from one, to six, seven, and eight syllables, both whole and divided, according to the rules of true spelling; with prayers, and graces both before and after meat, and rules for childrens behaviour at all times and places, with several other necessaries suitable to the capacities of children and youth. Also brief and easie rules for the true and exact spelling, reading, and writing of English according to the present pronunciation thereof in the famous University of Oxford, and City of London. To which is added, an appendix containing the principles of arithmetick, with an account of coins, weights, measure, time, &c. Copies of letters, titles of honour, suitable for men of all degrees, and qualities, bills of parcels, bills of exchange, bills of debt, receipts, and several other rules and observations fit for a youths accomplishment in the way of trade. John Hawkins school-master at St. Georges Church in Southwark.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Hawkins, John, 17th cent.
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  Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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