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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 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. 

Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton included this Table of Contents in the single volume of their 1851 edition of The Wide, Wide World. This second page lists the final 28 chapters with the corresponding titles and pages.

This is the second page of the table of contents for the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page contains the chapters, "SHOWING WHAT NOISE A BEE CAN MAKE WHEN IT GETS INTO THE HOUSE", "SUNDRY THINGS ROUND A POT OF CHOCOLATE", "THE JINGLING OF SLEIGH-BELLS", "SCRAPS-OF MOROCCO AND TALK", "STOCKINGS, TO WHICH THE "BAS BLEU" WAS NOTHING", "SUNDAY AT VENTNOR", "FLOWERS AND THORNS", "THE BANK-NOTE AND GEORGE WASHINGTON", "A GATHERING CLOUD INT HE SPRING WEATHER", "THE CLOUD OVERHEAD", "THIS 'WORKING-DAY WORLD'", "THE BROWNIE", "TIMOTHY AND HIS MASTER", 'WHERIN THE BLACK PRINCE ARRIVES OPPORTUNELY", "HALCYON DAYS", "PRODIGIOUS!", "THE CLOUDS RETURN AFTER THE RAIN", "ONE LESS IN THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD", "THOSE THAT WERE LEFT", "THE LITTLE SPIRIT THAT HAUNTED THE BIG HOUSE", "THE GUARDIAN ANGEL", "SOMETHING TURNS UP", "THE WIDE WORLD GROWS WIDER", "HOW OLD FRIENDS WERE INVESTED WITH THE REGALIA", "THOUGHT IS FREE", "TRIALS WITHOUT", "TRIALS WITHIN", and "THOU!".

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 title page to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The page begins with the title and the author underneath. Following the author is stated "With a Preface" In gothic-style font. Rev. C. B. Tayler is credited underneath with the preface. Between two simple zierrats underneath appears "WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY M. E. DEAR.". Beneath the illustration credit is an excerpt from Longfellow's "To a Child." The page ends with the publisher and their address.

This is the title page vignette to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. Reprint, Version 1. The picture is identical to the illustration on the cover. The illustration depicts Ellen saying goodbye to her mother, Mama, as her father stands in the background. As with the cover, the illustration is framed in decorative ivy decoration with the book title, author, and publisher incorporated into the vinery frame.

This is the verso of the front flyleaf of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page is blank.

This is the verso of page xi of the preface to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. It is blank and intact.

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.