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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 18, July 14, 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 2025-09-22
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" was a weekly illustrated British magazine published from 1832 to 1845. Created by Charles Knight to educate the working class, it sold for just one penny and featured wood-engraved illustrations on every page. Initially wildly successful with 200,000 copies sold, it reached nearly one million readers in its first year. However, its earnest, educational tone and lack of entertaining stories ultimately proved too dry for its intended audience, leading to financial difficulties and 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/76910
999 _c117635
_d117635