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Vizetelly family
Italian publishing family
Also known as: Vizzetelli family
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- Vizzetelli
Vizetelly family, family of Italian descent active in journalism and publishing from the late 18th century in England and later in France (briefly) and the United States. James Henry Vizetelly (died 1838) published Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack and other British annuals. His son Henry Richard (1820–94) was a correspondent (chiefly in Paris) for The Illustrated London News and the founder of two brief competitors. In 1852 he published a best-selling cheap reprint of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by the American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Forming his own company in 1882, he published inexpensive editions (later called the “Mermaid Series”) of early English ...(100 of 448 words)