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This is the full cover of the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint. This dark green cloth cover has The Wide, Wide World, Henry G. Bohn's Edition 3/6 written on the spine in gold letters. The spine has designs of four-leaf clovers or crosses. The front and back covers have the same design, with a circular design in the middle and borders surrounding this design and the outside of the covers. The borders are made up of diamond-like designs, and the middle circular design is made up of flower-like curlicues.

This is the tail of the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint.

This is the head of the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint. The edges of the pages are worn.

This is the fore edge of the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint.

This is the front pastedown and the first page of the front advertisements in the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint. This advertisement features other books in Bohn's Standard Library. This front pastedown has a decorative blue border, and the words are written in blue as well. The number 7 is written in black ink and circled in the middle of the page, as well as #130.

This is the second page of the front advertisements in the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint. These advertisements feature other books in Bohn's Standard Library, Bohn's Extra Volumes, and Bohn's Scientific Library. This page has a decorative blue border, and the words are written in blue as well.

This is the third page of the front advertisements in the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint. This advertisement features other books that are "Uniform with the Standard Library" This page has a decorative blue border, and the words are written in blue as well.

This is the title page to the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint.
The title is printed in the top quarter of the page followed by a period. The author's name is printed under the pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell. An inscription taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "To a Child," is printed in the page's middle. H.G. Bohn's address is listed as "London, York Street, Covent Gardens."

This is the front colophon for the 1853 H.G. John "Standard Library" Reprint. The Constitution Island Association is stamped below "London: Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars."

This is the half title page to the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint. The Wide, Wide World is written in bold in the middle of the page in capital letters.