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This is the first page of text in volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3. It features an epigraph taken from Longfellow's "It Is Not Always May." The Wide, Wide World is at the top of the page in all capitals, with a decorative rule under it.  Chapter 1 follows the decorative rule, with the epigraph and text under it.

This is the back pastedown of volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam 1st Edition, Version 3.

This is the verso of the second back flyleaf of 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3.

Volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam is covered with a blue leather grain embossed buckram (labeled Lea5 by the Library Company of Philadelphia). The front and back covers have an arabesque border. Both front and back panels have a publisher's mark, a scroll work "P." The title is gilt-stamped at the top of the spine; "Putnam" is gilt-stamped at the bottom edge of the spine.

This is the recto of the back fly leaf of volume 2 of the 1851 George Palmer Putnam 1st Edition, version 3.

This is the fore edge for volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3.

This is the back-right flyleaf of volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3.

This verso of the back fly leaf appeared in volume 2 of the 1851 George Palmer Putnam 1st Edition, version 3.

George P. Putnam included this Table of Contents in the second volume of their 1851 edition of The Wide, Wide World.  This page is the first page of the Table of Contents for this edition and lists the first 19 chapters.

This copyright page for 1851 George P. Putnam 1st Edition, Vol 2 shows that this book was entered into the "Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York," in 1850.