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This is the colophon for volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. This colophon features the text at approximately half way down the page. The text gives the publication date, name, and location. In the bottom left corner of the page is the title of the printers, Grossman & Son, and their location.

This is the colophon for volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The text on this page appears halfway down the page and gives the publishing information of the book. In the bottom left-hand corner of the text block the printers "Grossman & Son, Printers" are named along with their address.

This is the final page of text in volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The page is 334 with The Wide Wide World typed in Italics as a header. The text of the page goes roughly a third of the length down the page. Halfway between the end of the text and the end of the page is printed "THE END." in bold.

This is the first page of back advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The page begins with the title "Choice Books for Family Reading," in stylistic print. Underneath in smaller font is typed "RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY". Beneath this is "GEO. P. PUTNAM, 10 PARK PLACE" in larger font. A zierrat appears underneath. The books listed are Queechy and The Wide, Wide World, and Dollars and Cents. All are listed as "By the author of "Wide, Wide World.". Kennedy's Horse Shoe Robinson and Swallow Barn, Turkerman's The Optimist, Dickens's Home and Social Philosophy, The World Here and There, and Home Narratives, Bremer's Home; or, Family Cares and Joys, The Neighbors, Miss Cooper's Rural Hours and The Shield. Hays's Fadette, a Domestic Tale, Irving's Complete Works, Book of Hudson, Conquest of Florida. Goldsmith's Complete Works by Prior, Head's Faggot of French Sticks, Hood's Up the Rhine, Whimsicalities, Hood's Own, and Prose and Verse, Deshler's Selections from Chaucer's Works, and Beranger's His Lyrics. 

This is the first page of back advertisements in volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The books advertised on this page are A Journey to Iceland, And Travels in Sweden and Norway translated from Madame Ida Pfeiffer by Charlotte Fenimore Cooper, and A Book for a Corner: Or selections in prose and verse from authors the best suited to that mode of enjoyment; with comments on each, and a general introduction by Leigh Hunt. 

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 first page of front advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 2. This is the first page of advertisements which is also the Verso of the Front cover. This page of advertisements only features the novel Queechy by Elizabeth Wetherell. The top of the page is titled "THE FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE SEASON:" Underneath that title is slightly illegible due to damage, however, it is discernable that Putnam's name appears in the later part of the title and that the begining of the extended advertisement is marked with the Roman Numeral I.

This is the first page of text in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. On this page "THE WIDE WIDE WORLD" is printed approximately 1/4 down the page. Underneath the title is a decorative zierrat with three diamonds symmetrically placed on the line. Below the zierrat is printed "CHAPTER I." below the chapter title is the last verse of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "It Is Not Always May". The chapter then begins with the first word of the text in all capitals and bolded from the rest of the text.

This is the first page of text in volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The title, "THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD." appears approx. 4 cm. down the page in bold. Underneath the title is a Zierrat with a simple line design and three diamonds symmetrically placed. The chapter title does not appear, but "CHAPTER I." is typed underneath the ..... beneath the chapter, are lines 55-58 of Robert Burn's "Tam O' Shanter". Burns name appears in bold after the poem on the page.

This is the first page of the table of contents for volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. This page begins with "CONTENTS OF VOL. I." typed approximately 1/3 down the page. Underneath the title is a zierrat with three decorative diamonds placed symmetrically on it. Underneath the zierrat the chapters listed are, "Breaking the news," "Gives sorrow to the winds," "The worth of a finger-ring," "the bitter-sweet of life," "A peep into the wide world," "Night and morning," "Strangers walk as friends," "Leaves us in the street," "The Little Queen in the arm-chair," "Mud-and what came of it," "Running away with the brook," "Splitters," "Hope deferred," "Work not deferred," "Mother Earth rather than Aunt Fortune," "Counsel, cakes, and Captain Parry," "Difficulty of doing right," "Loses care on the Cat's back," and "Showing that in some circumstances white is black." The Roman Numeral of each chapter is given on the left side of the page. Across the page, on the far right is given the page number which the chapter begins on. The chapter title and page number are connected by a line of ellipsis.