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

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

This is the second page of back advertisements in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page begins with a header stating the publisher and publication cities. Following this header is a simple zierrat with the page title underneath being "NEW ILLUSTRATED WORKS FOR PRESENTS, &c.". These titles include:Maurice Gray, and Other Stories, My Rose, and Other Stories, Cowper's Poetical Works, Milton's Poetical Works, Stories From Switzerland and the Tyrol, Webber's The Romance of Natural History, The Reverend Bishop Russel's Polynesia, and Curcumnavigation of the Globe. The second section of this page is titled "MISS M'INTOSH'S WORKS" are: Conquest and Self-Conquest, and Grace Elliot. The entire text is outlined with a simple boarder and book ornaments in each corner.

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 seventh page of back advertisements in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The page begins with a header that states the name of the publisher and publication city. Underneath is a simple zierrat which leads to the title of the page "FIRESIDE LIBRARY OF TALES". The books listed here are: Conquest and Self-Conquest, Prase and Principle, Grace Elliot, Annie Donaldson, Forester's Tales for All Seasons, Anna Lee, Home Scenes and Lessons in Life, Kind Words Awaken Kind Echoes, Gleanings of Sacred Philosophy, Lives of Illustrious Men, Tales for All Readers, Stories from Church History, and Stories of Missionary Enterprise. The entire text is outlined with a simple boarder and a book ornament in each corner.

This is the sixth page of back advertisements in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page begins with a header stating the publisher and publication city, followed by a zierrat which gives way to the title "NEW ILLUSTRATED WORKS". The titles under this are:Romaunt's The Island Home, and Pictures of Travel and Adventure. The next section titled "THE ROYAL JUVENILE LIBRARY" includes: The Swiss Family Robinson, Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Foster's The Happy Holidays, and History of Sandford and Merton. The last section is marked by a subtitle giving the price of the books. These books are: Sigourney's The Coronal, Beecher's The Mayflower, The Gem, and Bache's Clara's Amusements. The page is outlined in a simple boarder with book ornaments in each corner.

This is the spine of the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The spine has

This is the tail of the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The binding is red and intact.

This is the tenth page of back advertisements in the T. Nelson and Sons reprint, version 1. This page begins with a header stating the publisher and publication cities. After a simple zierrat, the title of the page is printed "BOOKS OF TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY, &c." These titles include:The Arctic Regions, Cheever's The Island World of the Pacific, Watt's Scripture History, The Young Lady's Friend, Sigourney's The Girls Book and The Boy's Book, Longfellow's Poetical Works, Stephen's Travels in the Holy Land, The Book of Natural History, The Book of Entertaining and Instructive Anecdote, Evenings at Home, Curiosities and Wonders of Nature and Art, Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, History of Sandford and Merton, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Kirke White's Poetical Works, Cheever's Memorials of a Youthful Christian, and Life of Benjamin Franklin. The page is outlined with a simple boarder and has book ornaments in each corner.

This is the third page of back advertisements in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The page begins with the name of the publisher and publication city in the header followed by a simple zierrat proceeding the title "BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG". These titles are: Stowe's The Mayflower, Story of the Moreton Family, and Pebbles from the Sea-Shore. The next section, separated by a simple zierrat is titled "INTERESTING NEW WORKS". These works are: Ruins of Sacred and Historic Lands, The Reverend Bishop Russell's History of Egypt and Palestine, Sir John Leslie's Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions, Foster's The Seasons of the Year, and Professor Olmsted's The Mechanism of the Heavens. The entire text is outlined in a simple boarder with book ornaments in each corner.