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He was born on the 15th of March 1791 at Windsor, Berkshire, England. The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor
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He was born on the 15th of March 1791 at Windsor, Berkshire, England. The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor
He was apprenticed to his father, but on the completion of his indentures he took up journalism and interested himself in several newspaper speculations.
In 1823, in conjunction with friends he had made as publisher (1820 - 1821) of The Etonian, he started Knight's Quarterly Magazine, to which W. M. Praed, Derwent Coleridge and Macaulay contributed. The venture was brought to a close with its sixth number, but it initiated for Knight a career as publisher and author which extended over forty years.
In 1827 Knight was compelled to give up his publishing business, and became the superintendent of the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for which he projected and edited The British Almanack and Companion, begun in 1828. Later he resumed business on his own account with the publication of The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, writing several volumes of the series himself. In 1832 and 1833 he started The Penny Magazine andThe Penny Cyclopaedia, both of which had a large circulation. The Penny Cyclopaedia, however, on account of the heavy excise duty, was only completed in 1844 at a great pecuniary sacrifice. Besides many illustrated editions of standard works, including in 1842 The Pictorial Shakespeare, which had appeared in parts (1838 - 1841), Knight published a variety of illustrated works, such as Old England and The Land we Live in. He also undertook the series known as Weekly Volumes.
He himself contributed the first volume, a biography of William Caxton. Many famous books, Miss Martineau's Tales, Mrs Jameson's Early Italian Painters and G. H. Lewes's Biographical History of Philosophy, appeared for the first time in this series. 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).
In 1864 he withdrew from the business of publisher, but he continued to write nearly to the close of his long life, publishing The Shadows of the Old Booksellers (1865), an autobiography under the title Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century (2 vols. , 1864 - 1865), and an historical novel, Begg'd at Court (1867).
He published and contributed to works such as The Penny Magazine, The Penny Cyclopaedia, and The English Cyclopaedia, and established the Local Government Chronicle. He is considered to be the first person to propose the use of stamped newspaper wrappers in 1834, thus is attributed as their inventor.
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