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This is the verso of the title page to the 1853 Eli Charles Eginton & Co. "Pocket Library" Reprint. This page is stamped with "Constitution Island Association, West Point, N.Y."

This is the first page of the table of contents for the 1853 Eli Charles Eginton & Co. "Pocket Library" Reprint. Contents is written on the top third of the page, separated from the chapters by a short, bold line. Chapters I-XII are listed in the left column on pages 1-58. Chapters XIII-XXIV are listed in the right column on pages 61-117. The two columns are separated by a bold line, with each side set up in the same fashion (with Roman numeral chapters, chapter titles, and page numbers).

This is the second page of the table of contents for the 1853 Eli Charles Eginton & Co. "Pocket Library" Reprint. On page iv, the chapters XXV-XXXVIII are listed in the left column on pages 122-191. Chapters XXXIX-LII are listed in the right column on pages 196-271. The two columns are separated by a bold line and the two sides are set up in the same manner (with Roman numerals, chapter titles, and page numbers).

This is the first page of text in the 1853 Eli Charles Eginton & Co. "Pocket Library" Reprint. The Wide, Wide World is written above the decorative rule, with Chapter 1 and its title under it. A portion of Longfellow's poem, "It Is Not Always May," is written beneath the chapter title. The text begins about a third of the way down the page.

This is the verso of the last page of text in the 1853 Eli Charles Eginton & Co. "Pocket Library" Reprint.

This is the recto of the back flyleaf of the 1853 Eli Charles Eginton & Co. "Pocket Library" Reprint.

This is the first page of the table of contents in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page begins with the title "CONTENTS" followed by a simple underline. The chapters listed on this page 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 Deffered", "Work not Deferred", "Mother Earth rather than Aunt 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", and "Sweeping and Dusting". Each chapter has its corresponding Roman numeral on the left hand column and its corresponding page number on the right.

This is the second page of the table of contents in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The chapters on this page are: "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", "This 'Working-day World", "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 has it's corresponding Roman Numeral on the left hand side of the page and the page number on the right connected by a line of elipses.

This is the first page of text in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The page begins with the novel's title approximately 1/4 down the page. A simple zierrat follows and proceed the Chapter. underneath the chapter is an excerpt from Longfellow's "It is not Always May". The chapter begins after the excerpt.

This is the first page of text in volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The title, "THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD." appears approx. 4 cm. down the page in bold. Underneath the title is a Zierrat with a simple line design and three diamonds symmetrically placed. The chapter title does not appear, but "CHAPTER I." is typed underneath the ..... beneath the chapter, are lines 55-58 of Robert Burn's "Tam O' Shanter". Burns name appears in bold after the poem on the page.