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This is the full cover of volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The cover is mostly intact with slight wear on the spine which has opened the dark green of the cover o reveal the paper binding underneath. The Putnam seal is on the front and back of this book and the title "The Wide Wide World" Is stamped in gold on the spine with the number "1" appearing just after the ornament around the title.

This is the head of Volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, Version 2. There is some wear on the edges of this book's binding.

This is the tail of volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The green binding of the book has worn in places.

This is the fore edge of Volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, Version 2. The binding on this side of the book is mostly intact except for minor wear on the corner of the book. There is a section of pages that is protruding from the middle of the book. They are not loose from the rest of the text, but still sit further out when the book is closed.

This is the first page of front advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The page begins with "VALUABLE NEW AND STANDARD WORKS," at the top of the page, followed by, "RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY" in smaller font. Below that is typed "Geo. P. Putnam, 10 Park Place.", Though Putnam's name has been mostly covered by foxing. There is a zierrat beneath the publisher. Underneath is in bold typed "LATEST PUBLICATIONS" these publications are: Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush, Lothrop's Dollars and Cents, Hind's The Solar System, Hood's Up the Rhine, Bryant's The Cooper Memorial, Kennedy's Horse Shoe Robinson, Taylor's A New Work on the East, Pfeiffer's Journey to Iceland, Putnam's Supplement to the "World's Progress" to close of 1851, Coxe's A Buckeye Abroad, Parkman's Prarie and Rocky Mountain Life, Layard's Fresh Researchers at Nineveh and Nineveh and its Remains, Cooper's Naval History of the U.S. and [illegible] The Shield, St. John's The Hand-Book of Science, Callicot's The Hand-Book of Universal Geography, Macfarlane's A New Work on Japan, Silliman's Journal of a Visit to Europe in 1851, Mayo's Kaloolah, a Romance, Olmsted's An American Farmer in England, Spencer's The East; Travels in Egypt and Holy Land, Hawks's [illegible] of Central and Western America, and Green's On the polypi of the Larynx and On Bronchitis. 

This is the second page of the front advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. This page begins with a header which says "PUTNAM'S LATEST PUBLICATIONS". The header is divided from the list of books by an underline. the list of books on this page are, Hunt's A Book for a Corner and Romances of Real Life, Blackwell's Physical Training of Girls, Dickens's The World in its Workshops, Home and Social Philosophy, and, Home Narratives, Jerrold's Miscellanies, 
Wetherell's Queechy and The Wide, Wide World, Head's A Faggot of French Sticks, Saunders's Memories of the Great Metropolis,  Reach's Claret and Olives: or a trip through the South of France and Hand-Book of Familiar Quotations from English Authors, Cooper's A Posthumous Work, The Towns of Manhattan, and, Fine Portrait of J. Fenimore Cooper, Thackeray's Trip to the Mediterranean, Smith's Book of Table Talk, Knight's The best Story Tellers, Vizetelly's Readable Books and Musical anecdotes, Gilbart's Practical Treatise on Banking, The Merchants' and Bankers' Almanack, and Miseries of Human Life, Tuckerman's Book of Characters and The Optimist, Chambers's Papers for the People, Irving's Fine Portrait of Washington Irving, Bryant's Fine Portrait of W. C. Bryant, and Putnam's Semi-monthly Library of Original Copyright and Standard Works and The Homes of American Genius. 

This is the verso of the second page of front advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2.

This is the recto of the first front flyleaf of volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. This page shows indication of foxing.

This is the verso of the first front flyleaf of volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. There is indication of heavy foxing on this page.

This is the recto of the second front flyleaf of volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. There is an inscription in pencil at the top right corner of the page which says, "H. M. L. Gramey, May 8th: 1856," in cursive handwriting.