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See also: English publisher, was See also: born in See also: London on the 3oth of See also: July 182o, the son of a printer
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He was early apprenticed as a See also: wood engraver, and one of his first blocks was a portrait of " Old Parr." Encouraged by the success of the Illustrated London See also: News, See also: Vizetelly in 1843; with his See also: brother See also: James
See also: Thomas Vizetelly (1817–1897) and Andrew
See also: Spottiswoode (1787-1866), started the Pictorial Times, which was published successfully for several years
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In 1855, in partnership with See also: Boyne, he started a threepenny paper called the Illustrated Times, which four years later was merged in the See also: Penny Illustrated Paper
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In 1865 Vizetelly became See also: Paris correspondent for the Illustrated London News
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During the years he remained in Paris he published several books—Paris in Peril (1882), The See also: Story of the See also: Diamond Necklace (1867) and a See also: free See also: translation of Topin's See also: Man in the Iron Mask
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In 1872 he was transferred to Berlin, where he wrote Berlin under the New See also: Empire (1879)
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In 1887 he established a See also: publishing See also: house in London, issuing numerous See also: translations of French and See also: Russian authors
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In 1888 he was prosecuted for publishing a translation of Zola's La Terre, and was fined boo; and when he reissued Zola's See also: works in 1889 he was again prosecuted, fined £200 and imprisoned for three months
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In 1893 he wrote a See also: volume of autobiographical reminiscence called Glances Back through Seventy Years, a graphic picture of See also: literary Bohemia in Paris and London between 184o and 187o
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He died on the ist of See also: January 1894
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His younger brother, See also: Frank Vizetelly (183o-1883), was a See also: clever artist and journalist ; he went to See also: Egypt as war correspondent for the Illustrated London News and was never heard of after the See also: massacre of Hicks See also: Pasha's army in See also: Kordofan
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