TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knight,Charles
TI  - The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 7, May 12, 1832
AV  - AP 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - English periodicals
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penny_Magazine; Release date is 2025-08-28; Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Originally published; London: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1832
N2  - "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 educational content, the magazine aimed to spread knowledge to audiences with limited literacy. However, its serious tone and expensive production costs eventually led to declining readership, forcing price increases that undermined its original mission of accessibility. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76752
ER  -