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- Tags: First Edition
Recto of Front Flyleaf of Volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3
This is a blank front page for 1851 George Palmer Putnam's 1st Edition of the Wide Wide World.
Subjects: Blank
Tags: First Edition
Identifier: 74CIA_6
Recto of Front Flyleaf of Volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3
This is the recto of the front flyleaf from the 1851 George Palmer Putnam First Edition, Volume 2. The light brown marks across the page are evidence of foxing.
Subjects: Blank
Tags: First Edition
Identifier: 73CIA_7
Second Page of the Table of Contents for Volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3
This 2nd page of the Table of Contents for the 1851 George Palmer Putnam's 1st Edition Vol. 1, of The Wide Wide World list the chapters with Roman numerals, the chapter's title and which page number each chapter starts on, connected to the title by a series of dots. This page contains the last 9 chapters.
Subjects: Table of Contents
Tags: First Edition
Identifier: 74CIA_15
Second Page of the Table of Contents for Volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3
This 1851 George Palmer Putnam 1st Edition, Vol. 2 used this Table of Contents. This is the 2nd page of the Table of Contents and lists the last five chapters of the book.
Tags: First Edition, Table of Contents
Identifier: 73CIA_15_2
Title Page to Volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3
In the title page for George P. Putnam's first edition of the novel, the title is printed at 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. George P. Putnam's address is listed as "New York: 155 Broadway." Though the novel was released in December 1850, the copyright date is listed as 1851 in this first edition.
Subjects: Title Page
Tags: First Edition
Identifier: 74CIA_18
Title Page to Volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3
This is the title page to the second volume of the 1851 George P. Putnam first edition, version three. The title is printed in the upper quarter of the page with a period. The author's name, Elizabeth Wetherell, is printed in the center of the page with a period, followed by an inscription taken from the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem, "To a Child." Volume II is printed below this inscription, and the address of George Putnam is listed as, "155 Broadway, New York."
Subjects: Title Page
Tags: First Edition
Identifier: 73CIA_18
Verso of Back Flyleaf of Volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3
This back flyleaf in 1851 George Palmer Putnam 1st Edition, Vol. 1 shows evidence of mild foxing, and displays the book's dark green cloth-covered binding with blind stamping.
Subjects: Endpapers
Tags: First Edition
Identifier: 74CIA_8
Verso of Back Flyleaf of Volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3
This verso of the back fly leaf appeared in volume 2 of the 1851 George Palmer Putnam 1st Edition, version 3.
Subjects: Endpapers
Tags: First Edition
Identifier: 73CIA_8