The Penny Magazine 1842

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1842. Society for Diffusion of Knowledge (William Clowes). Heavily illustrated. 1st edition.

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 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.

In good condition with no leather along spine and scuffing to boards,

Harcover. Condition: Good+. 1842. Society for Diffusion of Knowledge (William Clowes). Heavilly illustrated. 1st edition.

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 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.

In good condition with no leather along spine and scuffing to boards, predictable edgewear and tanning from publication of this age and initial quality. Illustrated and well bound.

edgewear and tanning from publication of this age and initial quality. Illustrated and well bound.