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This is the back-right flyleaf of volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3.

This is the fore edge for volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3.

George Palmer Putnam used this title page for the completed works in one volume of the 1853 edition of The Wide, Wide World. This title page features the name of the novel, author, and publisher. This edition used Susan Warner's pen name Elizabeth Wetherell.  It contains the epigraph:

"Here at the portal thou dost stand,

      And with thy little hand

Though openest the mysterious gate,

      Into the future's undiscovered land

      I see its valves expand,

As at the touch of FATE!

Into those realms of Love and Hate.

                                     LONGFELLOW."

George Palmer Putnam included this Table of Contents in the second volume of their 1851 edition of The Wide, Wide World. This page is the first page of the Table of Contents for this edition and lists the first 24 chapters with the corresponding titles and page numbers.

This first page of text from the 1853 George Palmer Putnam, Vol. 1 includes 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."

This is the first page of front advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The page begins with "VALUABLE NEW AND STANDARD WORKS," at the top of the page, followed by, "RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY" in smaller font. Below that is typed "Geo. P. Putnam, 10 Park Place.", Though Putnam's name has been mostly covered by foxing. There is a zierrat beneath the publisher. Underneath is in bold typed "LATEST PUBLICATIONS" these publications are: Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush, Lothrop's Dollars and Cents, Hind's The Solar System, Hood's Up the Rhine, Bryant's The Cooper Memorial, Kennedy's Horse Shoe Robinson, Taylor's A New Work on the East, Pfeiffer's Journey to Iceland, Putnam's Supplement to the "World's Progress" to close of 1851, Coxe's A Buckeye Abroad, Parkman's Prarie and Rocky Mountain Life, Layard's Fresh Researchers at Nineveh and Nineveh and its Remains, Cooper's Naval History of the U.S. and [illegible] The Shield, St. John's The Hand-Book of Science, Callicot's The Hand-Book of Universal Geography, Macfarlane's A New Work on Japan, Silliman's Journal of a Visit to Europe in 1851, Mayo's Kaloolah, a Romance, Olmsted's An American Farmer in England, Spencer's The East; Travels in Egypt and Holy Land, Hawks's [illegible] of Central and Western America, and Green's On the polypi of the Larynx and On Bronchitis. 

This is the second page of the front advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. This page begins with a header which says "PUTNAM'S LATEST PUBLICATIONS". The header is divided from the list of books by an underline. the list of books on this page are, Hunt's A Book for a Corner and Romances of Real Life, Blackwell's Physical Training of Girls, Dickens's The World in its Workshops, Home and Social Philosophy, and, Home Narratives, Jerrold's Miscellanies, 
Wetherell's Queechy and The Wide, Wide World, Head's A Faggot of French Sticks, Saunders's Memories of the Great Metropolis,  Reach's Claret and Olives: or a trip through the South of France and Hand-Book of Familiar Quotations from English Authors, Cooper's A Posthumous Work, The Towns of Manhattan, and, Fine Portrait of J. Fenimore Cooper, Thackeray's Trip to the Mediterranean, Smith's Book of Table Talk, Knight's The best Story Tellers, Vizetelly's Readable Books and Musical anecdotes, Gilbart's Practical Treatise on Banking, The Merchants' and Bankers' Almanack, and Miseries of Human Life, Tuckerman's Book of Characters and The Optimist, Chambers's Papers for the People, Irving's Fine Portrait of Washington Irving, Bryant's Fine Portrait of W. C. Bryant, and Putnam's Semi-monthly Library of Original Copyright and Standard Works and The Homes of American Genius. 

This is the Title Page to Volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, Version 2. Beginning the title page, "THE" is typed alone and in a small font, followed by "WIDE, WIDE WORLD" which is typed in bold and larger beneath it. "BY ELIZABETH WETHERELL." follows. Underneath the author appear lines 120-126 of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "To a Child". A sketch of the world with various surnames appears. "VOLUME I." is typed beneath the sketch followed by "SIXTEENTH EDITION." At the bottom, the publisher and their address are given.

This is the colophon for volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. This colophon features the text at approximately half way down the page. The text gives the publication date, name, and location. In the bottom left corner of the page is the title of the printers, Grossman & Son, and their location.

This is the first page of the table of contents for volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. This page begins with "CONTENTS OF VOL. I." typed approximately 1/3 down the page. Underneath the title is a zierrat with three decorative diamonds placed symmetrically on it. Underneath the zierrat the chapters listed 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 deferred," "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," and "Showing that in some circumstances white is black." The Roman Numeral of each chapter is given on the left side of the page. Across the page, on the far right is given the page number which the chapter begins on. The chapter title and page number are connected by a line of ellipsis.