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this is the third page of advertisements from the Ward, Lock & Co. 1882 edition. It include a list of "Popular Books By Good Authors"

A clean, edited reading copy of George P. Putnam's first edition of The Wide, Wide World.

This is the recto of the back flyleaf of Volume 1 of the 1852 James Nisbet, Sampson Low, Hamilton, Adams & Co. second edition. The page shows evidence of uniform foxing along the gutter, and less uniform along the page edge and in the corners.

This is the verso of the back flyleaf of Volume 1 of the 1852 James Nisbet, Sampson Low, Hamilton, Adams & Co. second edition.

This is the back pastedown of Volume 1 of the 1852 James Nisbet, Sampson Low, Hamilton, Adams & Co. second edition. A small binder's ticket, which reads, "Bound by Westleys & Co. Friar Street London," is affixed in the lower left-hand corner.

This black and white illustration, appearing on page 426c of the [1885] Ward, Lock and Co. Home Treasure Library reprint, depicts Mr. Van Brunt tending his flock of sheep. A caption below the illustration quotes a sentence from page 427 and reads, "She went eagerly out of the door with Mr. Van Brunt to a new pleasure," and describes Ellen's excitement as she looks down at the sheep around her. Mr. Van Brunt stands near her, throwing feed to the sheep from a bowl tucked under his arm. A fence extends down the left side of the illustration toward a large mountain in the background, over which looms a billowy cloud. The field where Mr. Van Brunt and Ellen stand is mostly bare except for several trees that stand near the mountain.

This 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition is covered with a blue leather grain embossed cloth (labeled Lea5 by the Library Company of Philadelphia). The front and back covers have an ornate arabesque blind-stamped border. The Putnam seal is blind-stamped in the center of the front and back covers. The title is at the top of the spine and the publisher's name, Putnam, is at the bottom of the spine. Both are gilt-stamped.

Ward, Lock, and Co. used this light green, cloth-covered binding for their 1927 edition of The Wide, Wide World. In the middle of the cover, in a circle, sits Ellen on a bed in a blue dress.  The dress, made in a Victorian style, gives a more modern view of Ellen as a young girl.

Ward, Lock, and Co. used this dark green, cloth-covered binding for their 1892 edition of The Wide, Wide World.  The light blue and yellow flowers with black outlined leaves surround the title on the cover.  Below the flowers "The Pansy Series" is stamped in black ink.