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This is in the verso of back flyleaf of the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" reprint. This page is blank.

This is in the recto of the first page of back advertisements in the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" reprint. This page is blank.

This is in the first page of back advertisements in the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" reprint. This page is surrounded by a thin boarder with book ornaments in each corner. At the top of the page is the publisher and their publication cities. Underneath the publisher is a simple zierrat followed by a bolded "CABINET EDITIONS OF THE POETS," with the subtitle "BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL." in a smaller font. The first three listings are classified as "Now Ready". These are:The Life and Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, Cowper's Poetical Works, and Longfellow's Poetical Works. All of these titles are accompanied by a short paragraph. Underneath these three titles is another simple Zierrat which leads to the "BOOKS FOR THE FAMILY LIBRARY" section. These titles include: The Christian Missionary, Forester's Life of Sarah B. Judson, Reverand Hollis Read's The Young Lady's Companion, and The Hand of God in History, The Planetary and Stellar worlds, Elijah the Tishbite, Krummacher's Elisha, and Bogatsky's Golden Treasury.  

This black and white frontispiece is from the 1853 Nelson & Sons "Library for Travellers and the Fireside" Reprint. It depicts a scene from page 43, where Ellen and her mother are in the Parlour. Ellen's other sits in her chair, her daughter kneeling before. Behind them is a little table, facing an open window. On the table, is a basket of birds. The quote at the bottom of the image says, "Now, mamma, these birds are mine you know, and I give them to you. You must pay me a kiss for them, mamma; they are worth that.--Page 43.

This black and white illustration, appearing as the title page vignette to the 1853 T. Nelson and Sons reprint, depicts Ellen preparing to mount The Brownie. A caption below the illustration quotes a sentence from page 11 and reads, "Looking round sometimes, as if to make sure that it was herself, and giving a little kind of satisfied neigh when he saw that it was," and conveys the closeness of Ellen and her horse. In the illustration, Ellen stands on a tree stump, wearing a straw hat and apron, and grabs The Brownie's reigns as she prepares to mount him. A dog sits in front of The Brownie looking up at Ellen. The right side of the illustration is framed by foliage while an open field extends into the background of the left side of the illustration.

This is the first page of the table of contents for the in the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" reprint. The page begins approximately 1/4 down the page with the title "CONTENTS" a simple zierrat is placed below to give way to the chapter listings. Each chapter title is accompanied with its corresponding Roman numeral and is connected to the right hand page number by a line of elipses. The chapter titles listed here 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 Aunto 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", "Sweeping and Dusting", "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", and "This 'Working-day World'".

This is the in the second page of the table of contents for the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" reprint. The chapters listed on this page include: "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 title is accompanied by its corresponding Roman numeral on the left hand collumn and the page number of the chapter is on the right hand side of the page, connected to the chapter title by a line of ellipsis.

This is the second page of back advertisements in the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" Reprint. The text of the page is outlined by a text box with book ornaments in each corner. At the top, the publisher and location is printed. A simple zierrat comes above "New Illustrated Works" in larger font. These works are, Romaunt's The Island Home, and Pictures of Travel and Adventure. There is another Zierrat which leads to the next section, "The Royal Juvenile Library" the price is listed as a subtitle to this. These titles include, The Swiss Family Robinson, Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Happy Holidays, and History of Sandford and Mertron. There is a Zierrat which leads to more books of the same price. These titles are, Sigourney's The Coronal, Beecher's The Mayflower, The Gem, and Bache's Clara's Amusements. 

This is the fore edge of the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" Reprint. The fore edge is intact with minor wear on the edges.

This is the full cover of the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" Reprint. The cover is red. On the front the publisher's collection is listed first with the title of the book and author below. The publisher is listed at the bottom beneath an illustration of Ellen and the Brownie.