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This is the recto of the first page of back advertisements in volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The page is blank. However, it should be noted that there is a potentially missing page of advertisements here, as evidence of a ripped page sits in the binding between this page and the previous page.

This is the first page of back advertisements in volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The books advertised on this page are A Journey to Iceland, And Travels in Sweden and Norway translated from Madame Ida Pfeiffer by Charlotte Fenimore Cooper, and A Book for a Corner: Or selections in prose and verse from authors the best suited to that mode of enjoyment; with comments on each, and a general introduction by Leigh Hunt. 

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 front cover pastedown of  1851 George P. Putnam's 1st edition, Vol. 1 of the Wide Wide World features an inscription by a former owner. It reads "1902."

This is a blank front page for 1851 George Palmer Putnam's 1st Edition of the Wide Wide World.

In the title page for George P. Putnam's first edition of the novel, the title is printed at the top quarter of the page followed by a period. The author's pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell is printed in the page's middle. An inscription, taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "To a Child," appears between two decorative rules. George P. Putnam's address is listed as "New York: 155 Broadway." Though the novel was released in December 1850, the copyright date is listed as 1851 in this first edition.

This front page for 1851 George Palmer Putnam 1st Edition, Vol 1. shows that this book was entered into the "Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York", in 1850.

This page 1 of "Contents of Chapters" for 1851 George Palmer Putnam's 1st Edition, Vol. 1 of the Wide Wide World denotes this as "Volume I." It then lists the chapters with roman numerals, the chapter's title and which page number each chapter starts on, connected to the title by a series of dots.

This 2nd page of the Table of Contents for the 1851 George Palmer Putnam's 1st Edition Vol. 1, of The Wide Wide World list the chapters with Roman numerals, the chapter's title and which page number each chapter starts on, connected to the title by a series of dots. This page contains the last 9 chapters.

George Palmer Putnam used this first page of text in the 1st edition, Vol. 1 and included the epigraph:

"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."