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HENRY VIZETELLY (1820-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 165 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:VIZETELLY (1820-1894)  , 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 . He was See also:early apprenticed as a See also:wood engraver, and one of his first blocks was a portrait of " Old See also: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 See also:Andrew See also:Spottiswoode (1787-1866), started the Pictorial Times, which was published successfully for several years . In 1855, in See also:partnership with See also:Boyne, he started a threepenny See also:paper called the Illustrated Times, which four years later was merged in the See also:Penny Illustrated Paper . In 1865 Vizetelly became See also:Paris correspondent for the Illustrated London News . 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 See also:Iron See also:Mask . In 1872 he was transferred to See also:Berlin, where he wrote Berlin under the New See also:Empire (1879) . In 1887 he established a See also:publishing See also:house in London, issuing numerous See also:translations of See also:French and See also:Russian authors . In 1888 he was prosecuted for publishing a translation of See also: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 . In 1893 he wrote a See also:volume of autobiographical See also:reminiscence called Glances Back through Seventy Years, a graphic picture of See also:literary Bohemia in Paris and London between 184o and 187o . He died on the ist of See also:January 1894 . His younger brother, See also:Frank Vizetelly (183o-1883), was a See also:clever artist and journalist ; he went to See also:Egypt as See also:war correspondent for the Illustrated London News and was never heard of after the See also:massacre of See also:Hicks See also:Pasha's See also:army in See also:Kordofan .

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