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This is the front cover of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The cover is faded on a brown background and features an illustration of Ellen and her parents framed by illustrated greenery which houses the title and publication information as well.

This is the tail of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The pages of the tail are faded with age.

This is the head of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, Version 1. There are some visible tears to the pages on the head.

This is the fore edge of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The pages are faded with age and the back cover is missing.

This is the full cover of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The cover is faded and some of the title is illegible. At the top of the cover reads the price of the book while below the title is given amidst a framework of greenery which houses an illustration of Ellen, Ellen's Mother, and Ellen's father. Beneath the illustration is the publication city and publisher. The back cover is no longer attached to the book.

This front page advertisement for the 1853 Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton shows the prices of "LITERATURE FOR THE RAIL," available to those on trains in that time period. The book titles listed on this page are: Illustrated History of the Expedition to the Crimea, The Smartest Nation in All Creation's Grins, The Yankee Showman's Life of Barnum, Yankee Cram, Poe's Tales of Myster, Imagination, and Humour, Mrs. Stowe's Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Hugo's Napoleon the Little, Parisan Sights and French Principles Seen Through American Spectacles, Life among the Giants of Patagonia, Houssaye's Philosophers and Actresses, Letters, Essays, and Speeches of Peter Plymley, The Senator's Son, Smith and Smith's Rejected Addresses, Nile Notes of a "Howadji", Twenty Years in the Phillippine Islands, The Old Guard of Napoleon, and Wellington: The Story of his Life, Battles, and Political Career. 

This second page advertisement, which is a continuation of the one appearing on the front page, for the 1853 Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton shows the prices of "LITERATURE FOR THE RAIL," available to those on trains in that time period. Bellow a simple zierrat is listed the titles of books for "One shilling each". Those titles include: Marvel's Romance of Forest and Prarie Life and Reveries of a Bachelor, Ware's Pictures of European Capitals, Southey's Life of Nelson, Joan of Arc, Curse of Kehama, Ballads, and Minor Poems, The Cavaliers of England, Uncle Tom's Cabin, D'Arbouville's Three Tales, The White Slave, The Guards, Life in the Woods, Beauties of "Shakespere", The Shot in the Eye, and Adventures with the Texian Rangers, The Sunny Side & a Peep at Number Five, Last Leaf from Sunny Side, The Cossack and the Turk, The Tell-Tale, Lamartine's Wellington and Waterloo, The Czar and the Sultan, Longfellow's Poems on Slavery, and Spirit Rapping in England and America. 

This is the verso of the second page of front advertisements in the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page, though blank in printing, has been heavily written on by previous owners in both pencil and pen. The writing is illegible.

This is the recto of the front flyleaf of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page is blank except for a small signature in pen in the top right corner of the page from a previous owner.

This is the frontispiece to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. Reprint, Version 1 Depicting Ellen reuniting with John in Scotland. The illustration is uncolored. There is an explanation of the illustration at the bottom of the page which reads "The meeting of Ellen and her brother John.-Page 429".