ISBN: 9780027782004

This autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820â??1894). Born in London, Vizetelly was apprenticed to a wood engra… Plus…

This autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820â??1894). Born in London, Vizetelly was apprenticed to a wood engraver as a young child. He entered the printing business and helped found two successful but short-lived newspapers, the Pictorial Times and the Illustrated Times. From 1865 Vizetelly worked in Paris and later Berlin as a foreign correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and also wrote and published several books. On his return to England, he became a publisher of foreign novels and gained notoriety for his translations of Emile Zola which challenged strict Victorian laws on obscenity and led to his prosecution and imprisonment. His book is a fascinating blend of public and personal history, providing an insight into the turbulent literary world of nineteenth-century Europe. Volume 1 covers his life up to the infamous Palmer Trial in 1856. Media >, [PU: Collier Books; Collier Macmillan]<

1974, ISBN: 002778200X

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[EAN: 9780027782004], [PU: Macmillan Co.,, New York:], ENGLAND, BRITISH HISTORY, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, CHILDREN?S LITERATURE, SERIES ART, MIROSLAV SASEK, LONDON, TRAVEL, MEDIEVAL MIDDLE AGES… Plus…

[EAN: 9780027782004], [PU: Macmillan Co.,, New York:], ENGLAND, BRITISH HISTORY, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, CHILDREN?S LITERATURE, SERIES ART, MIROSLAV SASEK, LONDON, TRAVEL, MEDIEVAL MIDDLE AGES, ROMAN BRITAIN, RENAISSANCE, Jacket, Folio. 60 pp. Colour-illust. title, colour illusts. throughout. Blue cloth, white lettrng (ex-lib mrkngs to endpapers, title, tpe ghost mrks to cvrs, mnr rubbng), w/ d.j. (mnr chppng hd & ft of spine, couple clsd tears, edgewear), G-/G-. First edition, 1st printing of this charming installment in Sasek's travel series with his impressions of historic British sites., Books<