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This is the verso of the title page vignette in the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" reprint. The page is blank except for some minor foxing.

This is the verso of the title page to the in the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" reprint. The page is blank except for a stamp of ownership approximately 1/3 down the page which reads "CONSTITUTION ISLAND ASSOCIAATION WEST POINT. N. Y.".

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

This is the verso of the second page of front advertisements in the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" reprint. The page is blank.

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 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 title page to the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" reprint. The page begins with the title of the book in bold followed by the author, Elizabeth Wetherell. After the author an excerpt from Longfellow's "It is Not Always May" appears. Underneath the excerpt at the bottom of the page is the city and publisher. A previous owner has written in the year "1853" underneath the publisher. The entire page has a simple boarder around it.

This is the title page in the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" reprint. The page is blank except for the bolded title of the novel.

This is the tail of the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" Reprint. The tail is mostly intact except for a lifted spine on the right corner and some wear on the bottom of the front and back.

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.