VIZETELLY, HENRY RICHARD (18201894). An English printer, publisher, and author, born in the parish of Saint Botolph, London. As an engraver he worked under John William Bonnar and Orrin Smith, and his hest work was for an edition of Longfellow's Poems. With Herbert Ingram. the founder• Vizetelly was prominent in establishing the Illustrated London News in 1842. in 1852 he began the publication of books, and about this time he issued a reprint of Uncle Tom's Cabin. which was very successful. He vigorously opposed the newspaper stamp duty and was sued for penalties amounting to 860,000 for publishing his newspaper, the Illustrated Times (founded 1855), without the stamp; his example was followed by other newspaper pro prietors. the duty was abolished, and the penal ties were not enforced. lie was in Paris through out its siege by the Germans, and subsequent ly published a description of events in that city entitled Paris in Peril (1882). Afterwards
he established a publishing house in London. He issued translations of Zola's novels, and, on the ground that these were 'obscene libels,' he was fined and imprisoned for three months. His brother illustrator and war correspon dent, born 1830, was with the army of Nicks Pasha at El-Obeid in November, 1883. and prob ably perished in the Kashgil massacre. Several sons of henry Richard Vizetelly achieved prom inence: EDWARD (1818-1903), journalist, war eorrespondent, and author; ERNEST Ar.riwn (1853—), journalist, wan• correspondent, and translator, particularly of Zola ; A RTI I ( 1853- —) , editor and translator; and ERA NK HORACE ( 1864—I. author and encyclopxdist.