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This is the first page of the table of contents for volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition. "Contents of Chapters" is written at the top third of the page with Volume 1 under it. Each chapter, labeled in Roman numerals, has a title and a page number. Chapters I-XIX are on this page.

This is the second page of the table of contents for volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition. On page iv, it lists chapters XX-XXVIII.

This is the third page of text in volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition. Chapter XXIX, the first chapter of this volume, begins with a portion of Robert Burn's poem, "Halloween."

This is the eleventh page of text in volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition.

This is the first page of the Table of Contents for Volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition. "Contents of Chapters" is written at the top third of the page with Volume II under it. Each chapter, labeled in Roman numerals, has a title and a page number. Chapters XXIX-XLVII are on this page.

This is the second page of the table of contents for volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition. On page iv, it lists chapters XLVIII-LII.

This is the title page to volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition.
The title is printed in the top quarter of the page. Elizabeth Wetherell is written in the middle of the page, followed by "In Two Volumes." An inscription taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "To a Child," appears between two decorative rules. The edition is indicated as the second of two volumes. George P. Putnam's address is listed as "New-York, 155 Broadway," 1851 is printed below a decorative rule.

This is the first page of back advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The page begins with the title "Choice Books for Family Reading," in stylistic print. Underneath in smaller font is typed "RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY". Beneath this is "GEO. P. PUTNAM, 10 PARK PLACE" in larger font. A zierrat appears underneath. The books listed are Queechy and The Wide, Wide World, and Dollars and Cents. All are listed as "By the author of "Wide, Wide World.". Kennedy's Horse Shoe Robinson and Swallow Barn, Turkerman's The Optimist, Dickens's Home and Social Philosophy, The World Here and There, and Home Narratives, Bremer's Home; or, Family Cares and Joys, The Neighbors, Miss Cooper's Rural Hours and The Shield. Hays's Fadette, a Domestic Tale, Irving's Complete Works, Book of Hudson, Conquest of Florida. Goldsmith's Complete Works by Prior, Head's Faggot of French Sticks, Hood's Up the Rhine, Whimsicalities, Hood's Own, and Prose and Verse, Deshler's Selections from Chaucer's Works, and Beranger's His Lyrics. 

This is the first page of the preface to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The title of the "Preface" appears approximately 1/3 down the page in gothic-style font. Underneath the title is a simple zierret which then gives way to the text beneath.

This is page vi of the preface to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page is all text. except for the header which reads "PREFACE".