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Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton included this Table of Contents in the single volume of their 1851 edition of The Wide, Wide World. This second page lists the final 28 chapters with the corresponding titles and pages.

Page 1 of the Preface in the 1853 Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton, issue 1. This preface was written by Rev. C. B. Tayler.

This first page of text from the 1853 Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton begins with the title of the novel at approximately 1/4 down the page. Underneath appears a simple zierrat which then leads to the Chapter number. Underneath the chapter is an excerpt from Longfellow's "It Is Not Always May":

"Enjoy the spring of love and youth

    To some good angel leave the rest,

For time will teach thee soon the truth,

    'There are no birds in last year's nest.'

                                           LONGFELLOW."

This is the frontispiece to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. Reprint, Version 1 Depicting Ellen reuniting with John in Scotland. The illustration is uncolored. There is an explanation of the illustration at the bottom of the page which reads "The meeting of Ellen and her brother John.-Page 429".

This is the title page vignette to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. Reprint, Version 1. The picture is identical to the illustration on the cover. The illustration depicts Ellen saying goodbye to her mother, Mama, as her father stands in the background. As with the cover, the illustration is framed in decorative ivy decoration with the book title, author, and publisher incorporated into the vinery frame.

This is the title page to the 1853 H.G. Bohn Reprint, Version 1. The Wide, Wide World is written on the top third of the page, followed by Elizabeth Wetherell. Beginning on the second half of the page is Longfellow's "To a Child," as well as London: H. G. Bohn, York Street, Convent Garden. 1853.