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Library of Entertaining Knowledge

Library of Entertaining Knowledge

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The Library of Entertaining Knowledge was founded by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.[1] The books appeared from 1829 to 1838, published in London by Charles Knight, and complemented the Society's Library of Useful Knowledge, which had not sold as well as hoped.[2][3] The volumes were priced at 4s. 6d, more expensive than rival non-fiction series.[4]

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Portrait of a Kshatriya from The Hindoos (1835), in the "Library of Entertaining Knowledge"

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    Sylvanus Urban (1866). The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review — Vol. 2. p. 266.
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    Mitchell, Rosemary. "Knight, Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15716. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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    Royal A. Gettmann (10 June 2010). A Victorian Publisher: A Study of the Bentley Papers. Cambridge University Press. pp. 13–4. ISBN 978-0-521-15320-1.
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    Aileen Fyfe (28 February 2012). Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860. University of Chicago Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-226-27651-9.
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    Robert Bent (1839). The London catalogue of books ... containing the books published in London ... since the year MDCCCXIV to MDCCCXXXIX. p. 131.
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    George Lillie Craik (1865). The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. Continuation. p. v.
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    George Lillie Craik (1830). The New Zealanders. Charles Knight.
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    Samuel Halkett (1926). Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature. Ardent Media. pp. 159–60. GGKEY:XNNP1DZ3NZG.
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    The Westminster Review. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. 1831. p. 195.
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    Eric Moormann (10 March 2015). Pompeii's Ashes: The Reception of the Cities Buried by Vesuvius in Literature, Music, and Drama. De Gruyter. p. 57 note 219. ISBN 978-1-61451-873-0.
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    Shelley Hales; Joanna Paul (17 November 2011). Pompeii in the Public Imagination from Its Rediscovery to Today. OUP Oxford. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-19-956936-6.
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    Samuel Halkett (1926). Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature. Ardent Media. p. 54. GGKEY:XNNP1DZ3NZG.
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    Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jardine, David" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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    Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 1833.
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    s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ellis, Sir Henry
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    The Library of Entertaining Knowledge. The Hindoos. C. Knight. 1835.
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    Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Rosen, Friedrich August" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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    Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 1836.
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    Edward W. Lane (1 January 2010). Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. Cosimo, Inc. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-61640-504-5.
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    Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Keightley, Thomas (1789-1872)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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