Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century 3 Volume Set
Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century 3 Volume Set
£82.99
GBPCharles Knight (1791–1873), the son of a Windsor bookseller, was apprenticed to his father at the age of fourteen. He read widely and systematically, and began to buy, collect and sell rare books. He also worked as a liberal-leaning 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.
Product details
July 2014Multiple copy pack
9781108074254
1066 pages
216 × 140 mm
1.36kg
2 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Introductory
- Preface
- Part I. Early Reminiscences:
- 1-2
- Part II. The First Epoch:
- 1-10. Volume 2: Part III. The Second Epoch:
- 1-15
- Note to ch. 15. Volume 3: Part IV. The Third Epoch:
- 1-8
- Note to ch. 8
- 9
- Note to ch. 9
- 10-13
- Note to ch. 13
- 14. L'envoy
- Index.
