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This is the third page of the table of contents for Volume 2 of the 1852 James Nisbet, Sampson Low, Hamilton, Adams & Co. second edition. The chapters listed are XXI - XXIV. The page shows evidence of foxing.

This is the first page of text in Volume 2 of the 1852 James Nisbet, Sampson Low, Hamilton, Adams & Co. second edition. Beneath the Chapter 1 heading is a chapter description: "Stockings, to which the 'bas bleu' was nothing." Beneath this is a quote from the Robert Burns poem, "Tam O' Shanter." The page shows evidence of foxing.

This is the first page of back advertisements in Volume 2 of the 1852 James Nisbet, Sampson Low, Hamilton, Adams & Co. second edition. The advertisements include "Queechy" by Elizabeth Wetherell. There is evidence of foxing along the left margin.

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 fan letter written to Warner from Mary Barnes, a woman from Derbyshire. Barnes critiqued the women in her country for their inadequacies compared to the idealized characters Warner developed.

George Palmer Putnam used this as the copyright page of the 1853 second issue containing both volumes in one book. This page shows that this book was "entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, BY G. P. PUTNAM & Co., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." It also credits the stereotyper and printer of the book.

In the title page of George Routledge and Sons, Limited's 1899 edition of the novel, the title is printed in the top quarter of the page without a period. The author's pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell is printed below. An inscription taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's, "To a Child," appears in the page's middle. The novel is listed as an edition including six colored plates. George Routledge and Sons Limited's address is listed as, "London, Broadway, Ludgate Hill," and "Manchester and New York."

In this letter Ella Blake, a woman from Wisconsin, wrote to Susan Warner and her sister Anna to inform them of the impression Ellen Montgomery made on her childhood. She tells them that she has read the novel so many times it was necessary to have it rebound.

This is the first page of text in the 1853 H.G. Bohn Reprint, Version 1. The Wide, Wide World is on the top third of the page, followed by a decorative rule and Chapter 1. A portion of Longfellow's "It Is Not Always May" is under Chapter 1, with the text following it.