The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Bound Volume, 1838
Various Authors
Sold by My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since June 3, 1998
Sold by My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since June 3, 1998
Bound Volume, 1838. Good condition. Some foxing. 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' Edinburgh Journal, which started two months earlier. Sold for only a penny and illustrated with wood-engravings, it was an expensive enterprise that could only be supported by very large circulation. Though initially very successful with a circulation of 200,000 in the first year it proved too dry and too Whiggish to appeal to the working-class audience it needed to be financially viable. Its competitor which included a weekly short story grew more slowly, but lasted much longer.
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