Knight, Charles 1791-1873

Overview

Works:	734 works in 2,638 publications in 2 languages and 17,538 library holdings
Genres:	History Periodicals Biography Bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc Glossaries, vocabularies, etc Dictionaries Illustrated works Sources Bibliographies
Roles:	Author, Editor, Composer, Publisher, Other, Recipient, Adapter, Compiler, Printer
Classifications:	PR2753, 822.33

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Most widely held works about Charles Knight

Passages of a working life during half a century: with a prelude of early reminiscences by Charles Knight( Book )
Remarks on Mr. J.P. Collier's and Mr. C. Knight's editions of Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce( Book )
Charles Knight : educator, publisher, writer by Valerie Gray( Book )
Passages from the life of Charles Knight by Charles Knight( Book )
Charles Knight; a sketch by Alice A Clowes( Book )

Charles Knight : an appreciation and bibliography of the work of a great Victorian publisher by Charles C. F Morbey( Book )
Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The recovery of Jerusalem: by Torquato Tasso( Book )
The history of England from the commencement of the XIXth century to the Crimean War by Harriet Martineau( Book )
Windsor and Eton Express 1812-1830 : the Charles Knight years by Brigitte Mitchell( Book )
Charles Knight and printing in the early nineteenth century( Book )
The works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare( Book )
An essay on Charles Knight's Imperial Shakspere, embracing biographical sketches of author, editor, artists, engravers, etc. with R.H. Stoddard's poem, recited by Edwin Booth at the unveiling of the Shakspere monument, Central Park, New York, May 23, 1872 by John C Yorston( Book )
Autograph letter signed from Charles Knight, London, to William Widlow Reid by Charles Knight( )
Autograph letter signed from Charles Knight to William Ayrton by Charles Knight( )
Autograph letter signed from Charles Knight to William Hepworth Dixon by Charles Knight( )
William Hepworth Dixon papers by William Hepworth Dixon( )
Autograph letters signed from Charles Knight, Highgate and Hampstead, to various recipients by Charles Knight( )
Portrait and letter by Charles Knight( )
Charles Knight manuscript material : 4 items by Charles Knight( )
John Wilson Croker collection by John Wilson Croker( )

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Most widely held works by Charles Knight

The results of machinery, namely, cheap production and increased employment exhibited : being an address to the working-men of the United Kingdom by Charles Knight( )

49 editions published between 1831 and 2012 in English and held by 1,013 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Shakspere; a biography by Charles Knight( Book )

74 editions published between 1842 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 480 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English dramatist

Shadows of the old booksellers by Charles Knight( Book )

45 editions published between 1865 and 2012 in English and German and held by 464 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Half-hours with the best authors. With short biographical and critica notices by Charles Knight( Book )

110 editions published between 1848 and 1900 in English and held by 460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Specimens of three hundred writers"--Advertisement

Mind amongst the spindles : a miscellany, wholly composed by the factory girls by Charles Knight( )

19 editions published between 1844 and 1999 in English and held by 440 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

London by Charles Knight( Book )

20 editions published between 1851 and 1878 in English and Undetermined and held by 437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)( )

in English and held by 404 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Capital and labour; including the results of machinery by Charles Knight( Book )

23 editions published between 1845 and 1988 in English and held by 383 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, municipal, baronial, and popular antiquities by Charles Knight( Book )

27 editions published between 1844 and 1994 in English and held by 353 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The struggles of a book against excessive taxation by Charles Knight( )

23 editions published between 1850 and 2010 in English and held by 352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Caxton, the first English printer: a biography by Charles Knight( Book )

34 editions published between 1844 and 2010 in English and held by 350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The works of Shakspere by William Shakespeare( Book )

32 editions published between 1850 and 1881 in English and Undetermined and held by 340 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The old printer and the modern press by Charles Knight( Book )

25 editions published between 1854 and 2012 in English and held by 304 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Part I, "The old printer", is a revised edition of the author's "William Caxton", 1844; pt. II. "The modern press" is "a view of the progress of the press to our own day, especially in relation to ... cheap popular literature."

The history of England during the thirty years' peace: 1816-1846 by Harriet Martineau( Book )

16 editions published between 1849 and 1987 in English and held by 297 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Knight's quarterly magazine( )

in English and held by 268 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Knight's penny magazine by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)( )

in English and Undetermined and held by 262 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Knowledge is power: a view of the productive forces of modern society, and the results of labour, capital, and skill by Charles Knight( )

29 editions published between 1855 and 2017 in English and held by 262 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Describes the eighty-nine year career of the ice ship Bear, lauded for her role as a rescue vessel in the Arctic, her law enforcement activities in Alaska, and her participation in Antarctic expeditions

Knight's cyclopædia of the industry of all nations. 1851 by Charles Knight( Book )

28 editions published between 1851 and 1990 in English and held by 248 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The rights of industry: addressed to the working-men of the United Kingdom by Charles Knight( )

22 editions published between 1831 and 2016 in English and held by 233 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The popular history of England by Charles Knight( Book )

22 editions published between 1862 and 1883 in English and held by 203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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