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See also: English publisher and author, the son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, was See also: born on the 15th of See also: March 1791
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He was apprenticed to his
See also: father, but on the completion of his indentures he took up journalism and interested himself in several newspaper speculations
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In 1823, in conjunction with See also: friends he had made as publisher (182o-1821) of The Etonian, he started Knight's Quarterly See also: Magazine, to which W
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M
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Praed, Derwent See also: Coleridge and Macaulay contributed
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The venture was brought to a close with its See also: sixth number, but it initiated for Knight a career as publisher and author which extended over See also: forty years
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In 1827 Knight was compelled to give up his See also: publishing business, and became the See also: superintendent of the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for which he projected and edited The See also: British Almanack and Companion, begun in 1828
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In 1829 he resumed business on his own account with the publication of The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, writing several volumes of the series himself
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In 1832 and 1833 he started The See also: Penny Magazine and
The .Penny Cyclopaedia, both of which had a large circulation
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The Penny Cyclopaedia, however, on account of the heavy excise duty, was only completed in 1844 at a See also: great pecuniary sacrifice
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Besides many illustrated See also: editions of See also: standard See also: works, including in 1842 The Pictorial See also: Shakespeare, which had appeared in parts (1838-1841), Knight published a variety of illustrated works, such as Old See also: England and The See also: Land we Live in
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He also undertook the series known as Weekly Volumes
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He himself contributed the first See also: volume, a biography of See also: William
See also: Caxton
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Many famous books, See also: Miss Martineau's Tales, Mrs See also: Jameson's Early See also: Italian Painters and G
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H
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See also: Lewes's See also: Biographical See also: History of Philosophy, appeared for the first See also: time in this series
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In 1853 he became editor of The English Cyclopaedia, which was practically only a revision of The Penny Cyclopaedia, and at about the same time he began his Popular History of England (8 vols., 1856-1862)
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In 1864 he withdrew from the business of publisher, but he continued to write nearly to the close of his long See also: life, publishing The Shadows of the Old Booksellers (1865), an autobiography under the title Passages of a Working Life during See also: Half a Century (2 vols., 1864-x863), and an See also: historical novel, Begg'd at See also: Court (1867)
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He died at Addlestone, Surrey, on the 9th of March 1873
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See A
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Clowes, Knight, a Sketch (I892); and F
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Espinasse, in The Critic (May 186o)
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