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George Palmer Putnam used this title page for the completed works in one volume of the 1853 edition of The Wide, Wide World. This title page features the name of the novel, author, and publisher. This edition used Susan Warner's pen name Elizabeth Wetherell.  It contains the epigraph:

"Here at the portal thou dost stand,

      And with thy little hand

Though openest the mysterious gate,

      Into the future's undiscovered land

      I see its valves expand,

As at the touch of FATE!

Into those realms of Love and Hate.

                                     LONGFELLOW."

This is the title page to the 1853 Eli Charles Eginton & Co. "Pocket Library" Reprint. The title is printed in the top quarter of the page followed by a period. Following the title is the author's pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell. An inscription taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "To a Child," is printed in the page's middle. A line stating the edition as the first volume of a pocketbook series is printed within a circular border containing decorative vines and flowers. Eli Charles Eginton & Co.'s address is listed as "London, 48A, Paternoster Row." Roman numerals indicate the edition's year as 1853.

In the title page for T. Nelson & Sons' 1852 edition of the novel, the text is enclosed within a larger border. The title is printed in the top quarter of the page followed by a period. The author's pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell is printed in the page's middle. An inscription taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "To a Child," appears between two decorative rules. T. Nelson and Sons' address is listed as "London Paternoster Row and Edinburgh."

In the title page for T. Nelson & Sons 1852 edition of the novel, the text is enclosed within a ruled border. The title is printed in the top quarter of the page followed by a period. The author's pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell is printed in the page's middle. An inscription taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "To a Child," appears between two decorative rules.T. Nelson & Sons' address is listed as, "London, Paternoster Row, and Edinburgh."

This is the title page in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The page has only the title of the novel midway down the page in large font.

In the title page for University of London Press's 1950 edition of the novel, the title is printed in the top quarter of the page, without a period. The author's pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell is printed below, followed by a decorative rule. The editor and illustrator's name, Joyce Lankester Brisley, is printed in the page's middle. University of London Press Ltd.'s address is listed as, "Warwick Square, London, E.C.4."

In the title page of The Epworth Press' 1928 edition of the novel, the title is printed int he page's top quarter without a period. The author's name Susan Warner is printed below followed by a list of three separate works. An inscription taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "To a Child," appears in the page's middle. The Epworth Press and J. Alfred Sharp's address is listed as, "London, 25-35 City Road, E.C.1."

In the title page for Thomas Nelson & Sons' edition of the novel, the tile is printed in the top quarter of the page without a period. Below the title is a framed image of a ship sailing at sea enclosed within a decorative circle. The author's pseudonym appears in the page's middle as "Miss Wetherell." Following the pseudonym the word "abridged," encased between parenthesis. Thomas Nelson & Sons' address is listed as "London, Edinburgh, and New York."