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This is the full cover of the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The cover is a red grain weave. On the front is the title of the novel and the author's name in a gilded stamp. The spine contains the novel's title and author's name again in a gilded stamp with an ornamental boarder and another decorative stamp below it.

This is the head of the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The head is intact with minor wear on the corners of the binding.

This is the tail of the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The binding is red and intact.

This is the Fourth Page of Back Advertisements in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons Reprint, Version 1. This page of advertisements lists "Interesting New Works".

This is the recto of the back fly leaf of volume 2 of the 1851 George Palmer Putnam 1st Edition, version 3.

Volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam is covered with a blue leather grain embossed buckram (labeled Lea5 by the Library Company of Philadelphia). The front and back covers have an arabesque border. Both front and back panels have a publisher's mark, a scroll work "P." The title is gilt-stamped at the top of the spine; "Putnam" is gilt-stamped at the bottom edge of the spine.

This is the verso of the second back flyleaf of 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3.

This is the back pastedown of volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam 1st Edition, Version 3.

This is the first page of text in volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3. It features an epigraph taken from Longfellow's "It Is Not Always May." The Wide, Wide World is at the top of the page in all capitals, with a decorative rule under it.  Chapter 1 follows the decorative rule, with the epigraph and text under it.

This is the ninth page of text in volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition. The beginning of chapter one on page nine features The Wide, Wide World above a decorative rule, on the top third of the page. An excerpt from Henry Wadsworth Longellow's poem, "It Is Not Always May," is featured under the decorative rule. The text begins halfway down the page.