Title Page to the 1853 G.P. Putnam & Co. Illustrated Edition Reprint
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Citation
George Palmer Putnam, “Title Page to the 1853 G.P. Putnam & Co. Illustrated Edition Reprint,” Wide, Wide World Digital Edition, accessed October 31, 2025, https://widewideworlddigitaledition.siue.edu/items/show/521.
Description
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."
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Title Page
Date
1853
Source
Wetherell, Elizabeth [Susan Warner]. The Wide, Wide World. Reprint, 2 vols. in 1, illustrated ed. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1853.
Creator
George Palmer Putnam
Contributor
Publisher
The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition
Putnam
Putnam
Coverage
10 Park Place, New York, NY, United States
Rights
The Wide, Wide World Digital Edition by Jessica DeSpain, Jennifer Brady, Melissa White, and Jill Anderson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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11CIA_18