A 19th-century scholar claimed that “Cocker’s Arithmetick” had “probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as any [book]—next to the Bible” James Fox Historian ...

John Milton and his rendering of Satan in the 17th-century epic “Paradise Lost.” This year marks the 350th anniversary of both Milton’s death and the printing of the 12-book edition of ...

The Ninth Gate is a confused and confusing thriller about an unscrupulous bookseller (Johnny Depp) trying to work out why people keep dying or trying to kill him over a 17th-century book which may ...

The book’s first publisher was Thomas Passinger, whose shop, the Three Bibles, was perched on the medieval London Bridge. In the 17th century, the bridge was not only the most important crossing ...