572 pp. 11 3/4 x 7 1/2. Half leather binding, red morocco spine label with gilt titles, marbled boards. 292 woodcuts. Individual issues sell for $15 to $25 each. "The Penny Magazine, published every Saturday from 31 March 1832 to 31 October 1845, was an illustrated British magazine aimed at the working class. 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 woodcuts, 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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