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This is the verso of the title page vignette in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page is blank.

In the title page for T. Nelson & Sons 1852 edition of the novel, the text is enclosed within a ruled border. The title is printed in 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.T. Nelson & Sons' address is listed as, "London, Paternoster Row, and Edinburgh."

This is the verso of the title page in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page is blank.

This is the first page of the table of contents in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page begins with the title "CONTENTS" followed by a simple underline. The chapters listed on this page 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 Deffered", "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", "Showing that in some circumstances White is Black", "Headsick and Heartsick", "Footsteps of Angels", "Shows how Mr. Van Brunt could be sharp upon some things", "How Miss Fortune went out and Pleasure came in", and "Sweeping and Dusting". Each chapter has its corresponding Roman numeral on the left hand column and its corresponding page number on the right.

This is the second page of the table of contents in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The chapters on this page are: "Shows 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 in the 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 grown Wider", "How old Friends were invested with the Regalia", "Thought is Free", "Trials without", "Trials within" and "Thou!". Each chapter has it's corresponding Roman Numeral on the left hand side of the page and the page number on the right connected by a line of elipses.

This is the first page of text in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The page begins with the novel's title approximately 1/4 down the page. A simple zierrat follows and proceed the Chapter. underneath the chapter is an excerpt from Longfellow's "It is not Always May". The chapter begins after the excerpt.

This is the verso of the last page of text in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page is blank.

This is the recto of the back flyleaf in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page is blank.

This is the verso of the back flyleaf in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page is blank.

This is the first page of back advertisements in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page begins with a header "NEW WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS" with the publisher underneath followed by the publication city. There is a simple zierrat with a single diamond in the center. Underneath the zierrat is the title "NEW ILLUSTRATED WORKS FOR PRESENTS, &c.". The titles listed are: Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Wetherell's The Wide Wide World and Grace Howard and the Family at Glen Luna, The Reverend W.K. Tweedie's Seed-Time and Harvest, Reverend Dr. Massie's Minister and People, and The Book of English Poetry. The text is outlined with a simple boarder and book ornaments in each corner.