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Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century - With a Prelude of Early Reminiscences (Paperback)
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Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century - With a Prelude of Early Reminiscences (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries, Volume 1
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Charles Knight (1791 1873), the son of a Windsor bookseller, was
apprenticed to his father at fourteen. He read widely and
systematically, and began to buy, collect and sell rare books. He
also worked as a journalist, and, on moving to London, set up as a
publisher, then took to freelance writing, and acted as manager of
the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge. In 1832, he launched the Penny Magazine, offering the
working classes useful information, within a moral context of
thrift and self-discipline. Knight continued to write - on
Shakespeare, on Caxton, on English history - while at the same time
being at the centre of the British publishing industry. His 1864 5
three-volume autobiography (reissued here in its posthumous 1873
edition) provides insights into the economics as well as the
personalities of the mid-Victorian publishing world. Volume 1
covers Knight's life up to 1826."
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