The Book He Ordered
On 2 May 1611, Robert Barker printed the King James Bible - commissioned by James I to replace the subversive Geneva Bible with a clean, crown-endorsed text. He got what he asked for. The Puritans took it to New England.
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The Harmless Drudge
On 15 April 1755, Samuel Johnson published his Dictionary of the English Language — 42,000 words, nine years of work, and one of the more entertaining acts of self-description in literary history.