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Charles Knight (the 15th of March 1791 - the 9th of March 1873) was an English publisher, editor, and author. He is best known for producing mass-market educational publications including The Penny Magazine, The Penny Cyclopaedia, and The English Cyclopaedia, and for establishing the Local Government Chronicle.
The Penny Magazine reached a circulation of 200,000 by the end of its first year of publication in 1832. It ran until 1845.
Charles Knight lost forty thousand pounds on The Penny Cyclopaedia. The loss was largely due to heavy excise duty on paper; the work was only completed in 1844.
Knight's Quarterly Magazine, launched in 1823, included contributions from Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Derwent Coleridge, and Thomas Macaulay. The magazine ran for six issues and established Knight's reputation as a publisher.
Charles Knight is considered the first person to propose the use of stamped newspaper wrappers, in 1834, and is attributed as their inventor. He also held a patent from 1838 for improvements in producing coloured impressions by surface printing.
Charles Knight was buried at the cemetery adjacent to Bachelors Acre in Windsor. A gateway was erected in his memory at that cemetery after his death on the 9th of March 1873.