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This is the first page of the back advertisements in the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint.These advertisements feature other books in Bohn's Standard Library, with categories, Bohn's Ecclesiastical Library and Bohn's Shilling Series. This page has a decorative blue border, and words are written in blue as well.

This is in the first page of back advertisements in the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" reprint. This page is surrounded by a thin boarder with book ornaments in each corner. At the top of the page is the publisher and their publication cities. Underneath the publisher is a simple zierrat followed by a bolded "CABINET EDITIONS OF THE POETS," with the subtitle "BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL." in a smaller font. The first three listings are classified as "Now Ready". These are:The Life and Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, Cowper's Poetical Works, and Longfellow's Poetical Works. All of these titles are accompanied by a short paragraph. Underneath these three titles is another simple Zierrat which leads to the "BOOKS FOR THE FAMILY LIBRARY" section. These titles include: The Christian Missionary, Forester's Life of Sarah B. Judson, Reverand Hollis Read's The Young Lady's Companion, and The Hand of God in History, The Planetary and Stellar worlds, Elijah the Tishbite, Krummacher's Elisha, and Bogatsky's Golden Treasury.  

This is the first page of the back advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1. The advertisement features Susan Warner's other works, Dickens's Home and Social Philosophy, The World Here and There, and Home Narratives. It also features Comeplete Works, Book of the Hudson, and Conquest of Florida by Irving.

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 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 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.