01804cam a22003133u 4500 77007 UtSlPG 20260610134801.0 m cr n 260607r20251832utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 AP Knight, Charles, 1791-1873 The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 23, August 11, 1832 Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penny_Magazine Release date is 2025-10-07 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" was an illustrated British weekly published from 1832 to 1845. Created by Charles Knight to educate the working class, this pioneering publication sold for just one penny and featured innovative wood-engravings. It initially achieved remarkable success, reaching 200,000 copies in its first year with nearly one million readers. However, the magazine's dry content and expensive illustrations ultimately challenged its survival in a competitive market, revealing the tensions between educational ambition and commercial viability in Victorian Britain. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: London: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1832 English periodicals https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77007 117731 117731