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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 11, June 2, 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 2025-08-28
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, this weekly magazine featured wood-engraved illustrations alongside articles of "useful knowledge." It achieved remarkable early success, reaching 200,000 copies sold in its first year with nearly one million readers. However, its educational approach proved too dry for its intended audience, while production costs for illustrations eventually strained its finances, leading to its eventual decline. (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/76753
999 _c117478
_d117478