01925cam a22003133u 4500 77142 UtSlPG 20260610134804.0 m cr n 260607r2025||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 AP Knight, Charles, 1791-1873 Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 32, September 1 to September 29, 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 2025-10-28 Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net The Penny Magazine was an illustrated British magazine aimed at the working class, published every Saturday from 31 March 1832 to 31 October 1845. Charles Knight created it for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in response to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which started two months earlier. Sold for only a penny and illustrated with wood-engravings, it was an expensive enterprise that could survive only with a large circulation. Though initially successful, with a circulation of 200,000 in the first year, it proved too dry and too Whiggish to appeal to its intended working-class audience. The Edinbugh Journal, by contrast, which included a weekly short story, grew more slowly, but lasted longer. (This summary is from Wikipedia.) Originally published: London: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1832 English periodicals https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77142 117864 117864