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This is the second page of the back advertisements in volume 2 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint. It lists seven other books published by Sampson Low:The Whaleman's Adventures, Household Chemistry, Eastern Music, Malleville, The Swiss Family Robinson, and Forest Life and Forest Trees. 

This is the second page of back advertisements in Volume 2 of the 1852 James Nisbet, Sampson Low, Hamilton, Adams & Co. second edition. There is evidence of foxing along the left margin.

This is the second page of back advertisements in volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The books advertised on this page include: Up the Rhine, Roughing it in the Bush, An African Cruiser, Sicily, Head's Journey across the Pampas, Hood's National Tales: Tylney Hell; Micellanies, Osborn's Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal, Leigh Hunt's Romances of Real Life, Reach's Railway Note Book, Kohl's St. Petersburgh, Douglas Jerrold's Miscellanies, Thackeray's Miscellanies, and Musical Anecdotes.

This is the second page of back advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. This page begins with a header saying, "CHOICE BOOKS FOR FAMILY READING". Underneath this title is an underline and then a listing of authors, their works, and the prices. The books listed are: Leigh Hunt's A Book for a Corner, Imagination and Fancy, and Stories from the Italian Poets, Mayo's Romance Dust, The Berber, and Kaloolah, Kimball's St. Leger; or, the Threads of Life, Lamb's Essays of Elia, and Specimens of the English Dramatists, Myers's The King of the Hurons, and First of the Knickerbockers, Keats's Literary Remains and Life, and Poetical Works, Hewitt's Memorial of Genius and ... [illegible due to damage], Fairfax's Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Sedgwick's Clarence, and Redwood, Kirkland's Spencer and the Faery Queen, Foque's Undine, a Tale, and Sintram, Gilman's The Sybil; or, New Oracles from the Poets, Goodrich's Poems (illustrated), Hawthorne's Mosses from an old Manse, Howitt's Ballads and other Poems, Lynch's Poems (illustrated), Montagu's Selections from taylor,... [illegible due to damage], Peacock's Headlong Hall, &c. Hervey's Book of Christmas, Cooper's Choice Works, and Clarke's ... [illegible due to damage] Gift Book. 

This is the second page of back advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1. It includes authors such as Sedgwick and Hawthorne.

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 second page of the back advertisements in the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint. These advertisements feature other books in Bohn's Standard Library, with categories, Bohn's Classical Library and Bohn's Illustrated Library. This page has a decorative blue border, and words are written in blue as well.