Charles Knight Educator, Publisher, Writer |
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| Author:
| Gray, Valerie |
| Series title: | The Nineteenth Century Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7546-5219-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2006 |
| Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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This is the first modern book-length study of the important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher Charles Knight. Valerie Gray offers fresh assessments of Knight's life and work and evaluates Knight's role as an innovative publisher who used the latest techniques to provide the emerging mass readership with unique combinations of text and image in his many 'pictorial' books and periodicals.
This is the first modern book-length study of the important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher Charles Knight. Valerie Gray offers fresh assessments of Knight's life and work and evaluates Knight's role as an innovative publisher who used the latest techniques to provide the emerging mass readership with unique combinations of text and image in his many 'pictorial' books and periodicals.