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This is the title page vignette to the 1853 T. Nelson and Sons Reprint Depicting Ellen preparing to mount the Brownie. A caption below the illustration quotes a sentence from page 11 and reads, "Looking round sometimes, as if to make sure that it was herself, and giving a little kind of satisfied neigh when he saw that it was." In the illustration, Ellen stands on a tree stump, wearing a straw hat and apron, and grabs The Brownie's reigns as she prepares to mount him. A dog sits in front of The Brownie looking up at Ellen. The right side of the illustration is framed by foliage while an open field extends into the background of the left side of the illustration.

This is the frontispiece to the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons Reprint Depicting Ellen and Mamma holding each other in the parlor. It is a scene from page 43. In the background is a window looking out, with some foliage framing the scene and a table sits next to them with a basket of birds. Ellen is dressed in dark while her mother, looking down at her child, is dressed in light colors. It is entitled, "Ellen And Her Mother," and has the caption, "'Now, mamma, these birds are mine you know, and I give them to you. You must pay me a kiss for them, mamma they are worth that.'"

This is the recto of the front flyleaf of the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons Reprint. "John Ham" is written in cursive on this page.

This color frontispiece is from the 1923 Nelson & Sons, Ltd. Reprint. This image also shares space with the title page. The image depicts a scene from page 80, at the Inn where Timmins the maid finds Ellen asleep on the ground, in her room after her travels.
In the title page of Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd.'s 1923 edition of the novel, the text is enclosed within a ruled border. The author's pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell is printed in the page's top quarter above two decorative rules. The title is printed below without a period. A red stamp indicates the novel was inducted into the Advocates Library in Edinburgh on August 14th, 1923. Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd.'s address is listed as, "London, Edinburgh, and New York."

A color illustration from the Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd. Reprint from 1923, page 384. Ellen sits upon her horse, as Mr. Saunders lays in the grass, John, standing next to his horse, looking down at the man.

This full color plate from the 1923 Nelson&sons, Ltd. Reprint, depicts a scene on page 288, where Ellen and Ellen Chauncey have come down on Christmas morning, examining their stockings that hang upon the high back of an armchair. Both girls are dressed in their nightgowns and caps, with the hair peeking through, their faces smiling.

This color plate is from the [1923] Nelson&Sons, Ltd. Reprint, depicts Alice comforting Ellen after the loss of her letter. Alice sits in a chair, dressed in a dark dress, holding Ellen's face close to her's. Ellen is dressed in a green dress, her face somber. Both are at eye level. An inscription below the illustration says, "'My poor child!' Was Alice's first expression." The scene depicted in this illustration appears on page 217 of the novel.