The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 13, June 16, 1832
Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 13, June 16, 1832 - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penny_Magazine Release date is 2025-09-04
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 weekly from 1832 to 1845. Created for working-class readers and sold for just one penny, this ambitious magazine featured wood-engraved illustrations alongside educational articles. It achieved remarkable early success, reaching 200,000 copies in its first year with an estimated readership of nearly one million. However, its dry, non-controversial content and the high cost of producing illustrations eventually challenged its survival in an increasingly competitive market. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 13, June 16, 1832 - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penny_Magazine Release date is 2025-09-04
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 weekly from 1832 to 1845. Created for working-class readers and sold for just one penny, this ambitious magazine featured wood-engraved illustrations alongside educational articles. It achieved remarkable early success, reaching 200,000 copies in its first year with an estimated readership of nearly one million. However, its dry, non-controversial content and the high cost of producing illustrations eventually challenged its survival in an increasingly competitive market. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
English periodicals
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