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This 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition is covered with a blue leather grain embossed cloth (labeled Lea5 by the Library Company of Philadelphia). The front and back covers have an ornate arabesque blind-stamped border. The Putnam seal is blind-stamped in the center of the front and back covers. The title is at the top of the spine and the publisher's name, Putnam, is at the bottom of the spine. Both are gilt-stamped.

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

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

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

This is the tail of volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3.

This is the fore edge of volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3.

In the title page for George P. Putnam's first edition of the novel, the title is printed at the top quarter of the page followed by a period. The author's pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell is printed in the page's middle. An inscription, taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "To a Child," appears between two decorative rules. George P. Putnam's address is listed as "New York: 155 Broadway." Though the novel was released in December 1850, the copyright date is listed as 1851 in this first edition.

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.