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Ward, Lock, and Co. used this red, cloth-covered binding for an [1882] edition of The Wide, Wide World. The title is placed in front of stamped white lilies. A stamped ribbon is wrapped around the base of the flowers denoting this book is part of "The Lily Series."  The cover also uses black ink stamping on top of the red cloth, forming a border and a background for the white lilies.

This is the recto of the first back flyleaf of Volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3.

This is the verso of the first back flyleaf from volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3.

In this example of the visual comparison tool, users can compare illustrations across editions. On the right hand side there are images the user has saved and can drag into this tool to compare.This example showsshows the search phrase "coifed hair" and two images from different editions side-by-side. This example also shows the zoom function used to look more closely at different sections of the page.

In this Juxta sample, users are specifically looking for spellingdifferences between British and American editons of the book. This Juxta sample compares the first edition of the book published by George P. Putnam with the 1852 editon published by James Nisbet, Sampson Low, and Hamilton Adams. In this sample an entire sentence was removed from the George P. Putnam edition.

In this Juxta sample, users are specifically looking for spelling differences between British and American editons of the book. This Juxta sample compares the first edition of the book published by George P. Putnam with the 1852 editon published by James Nisbet, Sampson Low, and Hamilton Adams. In this sample the American "colored" has been changed to the British "coloured" and the American "show" has been changed to the British "shew."

James Nisbet used this fore-edge for an 1891 edition of The Wide, Wide World.