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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 first page of text in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1. It features a decorative rule and the last quatrain from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "It is Not Always May."

This is the first page of text in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. On this page "THE WIDE WIDE WORLD" is printed approximately 1/4 down the page. Underneath the title is a decorative zierrat with three diamonds symmetrically placed on the line. Below the zierrat is printed "CHAPTER I." below the chapter title is the last verse of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "It Is Not Always May". The chapter then begins with the first word of the text in all capitals and bolded from the rest of the text.

This is the first page of text in Volume 1 of the 1852 James Nisbet, Sampson Low, Hamilton, Adams & Co. second edition. Just beneath the Chapter I title is a quote from Longfellow's "It is Not Always May." There is evidence of foxing on the page.

This is the first page of text in volume 1 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint. It features a decorative rule under The Wide, Wide World. An epigraph is under the decorative rule with a portion of Longfellow's poem "It Is Not Always May."

This first page of text from the 1853 George Palmer Putnam, Vol. 1 includes the epigraph:

"Enjoy the spring of love and youth

    To some good angel leave the rest,

For time will teach thee soon the truth,

    'There are no birds in last year's nest.'

                                           LONGFELLOW."