VIZETELLY, HENRY English publisher, was born in London on July 3o, 1820, 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." Vizetelly started and conducted sev eral illustrated papers, and then acted as correspondent of the Illustrated London News in Paris and then in Berlin. 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 Lim; and when he reissued Zola's works in 1889 he was again prosecuted, fined £200 and imprisoned for three months. He died on Jan. r, 1894.
See his Glances back through Seventy Years (1893).