HENRY

See also:

• HENRY VIZETELLY (1820-1894)

VIZETELLY (1820-1894)  , English publisher, was born in London on the 3oth of July 182o, the son of a printer . He was early apprenticed as a wood engraver, and one of his first blocks was a portrait of " Old Parr." Encouraged by the success of the Illustrated London News, Vizetelly in 1843; with his brother James Thomas Vizetelly (1817–1897) and Andrew Spottiswoode (1787-1866), started the Pictorial Times, which was published successfully for several years . In 1855, in partnership with Boyne, he started a threepenny paper called the Illustrated Times, which four years later was merged in the Penny Illustrated Paper . In 1865 Vizetelly became Paris correspondent for the Illustrated London News . During the years he remained in Paris he published several books—Paris in Peril (1882), The Story of the Diamond Necklace (1867) and a free translation of Topin's Man in the Iron Mask . In 1872 he was transferred to Berlin, where he wrote Berlin under the New Empire (1879) . In 1887 he established a publishing house in London, issuing numerous translations of French and Russian authors . In 1888 he was prosecuted for publishing a translation of Zola's La Terre, and was fined boo; and when he reissued Zola's works in 1889 he was again prosecuted, fined £200 and imprisoned for three months . In 1893 he wrote a volume of autobiographical reminiscence called Glances Back through Seventy Years, a graphic picture of literary Bohemia in Paris and London between 184o and 187o . He died on the ist of January 1894 . His younger brother, Frank Vizetelly (183o-1883), was a clever artist and journalist ; he went to Egypt as war correspondent for the Illustrated London News and was never heard of after the massacre of Hicks Pasha's army in Kordofan .