Cheap Magazine

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The Cheap Magazine, subtitled '"The Poor Man's Fireside Companion", was a fourpenny Edinburgh monthly published from 1813 to 1815 by George Miller (1771-1835), an East Lothian printer. As "one of the first attempts to diffuse a pure and useful literature among the less educated portion of Scotland", this effort foreshadowed later publications such as Chambers's Edinburgh Journal and the Penny Magazine.[1] Yet a cheap price required a large circulation, and Miller's attempt to sustain a large readership without taking any definite religious position ended in financial failure. [2]

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  1. ^ Timperley, Charles Henry, A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, 1839, p. 845
  2. ^ Altick, Richard D., The English Common Reader, 2nd ed., 1998, p. 320
  • George Miller, Later Struggles in the Journey of Life; or, the Afternoon of my Days: being the Retrospection of a Sexagenarian, 1833
  • J. O., Notes and Queries 6th series, 5 (1882), pp. 495-6
  • T. Fisher Unwin, Notes and Queries 10th series, 12 (1909), pp. 1-3, 42-44, 474
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