Library of Entertaining Knowledge

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]

Number	Year	Title	Author Comments
1[5]	1829 (31 March)	The Menageries. Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn From Living Subjects	James Rennie (anonymous)
	1829	A Description and History of Vegetable Substances used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy: Timber Trees: Fruits	Robert Mudie (anonymous)
	1830	The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties[6]	George Lillie Craik (anonymous)
	1830	The New Zealanders[7]	George Lillie Craik (anonymous)
24	1830	Insect Architecture[8]	James Rennie (anonymous)
	1830	Insect Transformations[8]	James Rennie (anonymous)
	1831	Paris and Its Historical Scenes (2 Vols.)	George Lillie Craik (anonymous)
	1831	Insect Miscellanies[8]	James Rennie (anonymous)
	1831	The Architecture of Birds[9]	James Rennie (anonymous)
35	1831–2	Pompeii (2 vols.)	William Barnard Clarke (anonymous), later expanded[10][11]
	1831–5	Historical Parallels (2 vols.)[12]	Arthur Thomas Malkin (anonymous)
	1832	Vegetable Substances Used for The Food of Man
12	1832–3	Criminal Trials (2 vols.)[13]	David Jardine (anonymous)
	1832-6	The British Museum. Egyptian Antiquities (2 vols.)	George Long (anonymous)
18, 19	1833[14]	The British Museum. Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles (2 vols.)[15]	Sir Henry Ellis (anonymous)
	1833	Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufacture
	1833	The Domestic Habits of Birds	James Rennie (anonymous)
	1834	History of British Costume	James Planché (anonymous)
	1834-5	The Hindoos (2 Vols.)[16]	Revised by Friedrich August Rosen[17]
	1835	The Faculties of Birds	James Rennie (anonymous)
	1836	The British Museum. The Townley Gallery (2 vols.)[15]	Sir Henry Ellis (anonymous)
	1836	Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (2 vols.)[18]	Edward William Lane[19]
	1836	The Chinese. A General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants (2 vols.)	John Francis Davis
	1836	The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer	Catharine Parr Traill (anonymous)
	1837	Secret Societies of the Middle Ages	Thomas Keightley; published anonymously and against the author's wishes[20]
	1838	Distinguished Men of Modern Times (4 Vols.)	Henry Malden (anonymous)

Portrait of a Kshatriya from The Hindoos (1835), in the Library of Entertaining Knowledge, vol. 21