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Reviewer compliments The Wide, Wide World for standing out among the "now common class of religious novels"; offers an excerpt illustrating the novel's "agreeable style"; concludes with a complaint about the author's "diffuseness" (novel mistakenly attributed to "Emily" Wetherell)

Third Page of the Table of Contents of of the 1883 James Nisbet and CO. "New Edition"

In the title page for Hutchinson & Co.'s 1904 edition of the novel, 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. Below the pseudonym is a list of eight seperate works by the author. Hutchinson & CO.'s address is listed as "London 34, Paternoster Row."

James Nisbet and CO. included this Table of Contents in their 1883 edition of The Wide, Wide World. This page is the first page of the Table of Contents for this edition and lists the first 19 chapters.

Page 2 of the Preface to the English Edition to the 1883 James Nisbet & CO. Reprint. This preface was written in New York, December 20, 1851.

This illustration, appearing as the frontispiece to the 1883 James Nisbet and CO. reprint, depicts Ellen receiving a letter from home. The inscription reads "The Letter from Home" which is based on the events that take place on page 353. This image is in color unlike the image it is based on.

Page 1 of the Preface to the English Edition to the 1883 James Nisbet & CO. Reprint. This preface was written in New York, December 20, 1851.

The Verso of Title Page with Colophon of printers.

Title Page to the 1883 new James Nisbet edition.