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100 1 _aKnight, Charles,
_d1791-1873
245 1 4 _aThe penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 2, April 7, 1832
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penny_Magazine
500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-29
508 _aSteven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1832
653 _aEnglish periodicals
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76590
999 _c117315
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