The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 2, April 7, 1832
Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 2, April 7, 1832 - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penny_Magazine Release date is 2025-07-29
Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
"The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" is an illustrated British periodical published from 1832 to 1845. Created for working-class readers and sold for just one penny, it achieved remarkable early success with 200,000 copies sold in its first year. Filled with wood-engraved illustrations and non-radical information, the magazine aimed to educate readers through rational inquiry and visual learning. However, its dry content and expensive production costs eventually led to declining circulation, forcing price increases that undermined its original mission of affordable knowledge for all. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
English periodicals
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The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 2, April 7, 1832 - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penny_Magazine Release date is 2025-07-29
Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
"The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" is an illustrated British periodical published from 1832 to 1845. Created for working-class readers and sold for just one penny, it achieved remarkable early success with 200,000 copies sold in its first year. Filled with wood-engraved illustrations and non-radical information, the magazine aimed to educate readers through rational inquiry and visual learning. However, its dry content and expensive production costs eventually led to declining circulation, forcing price increases that undermined its original mission of affordable knowledge for all. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
English periodicals
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