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This is the first page of the table of contents for the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The title of the page "CONTENTS" appears in gothic-style font, separated from the chapter titles by a simple zierrat. The chapters listed on this page are, "BREAKING THE NEWS", "GIVES SORROW TOTHE WINDS", "THE WORTH OF A FINGER-RING", "THE BITTER-SWEET OF LIFE", "A PEEP INTO THE WIDE WORLD", "NIGHT AND MORNING", "STRANGERS WALK AS FRIENDS", "LEAVES US IN THE STREET", "THE LITTLE QUEEN IN THE ARM-CHAIR", "MUD-AND WHAT CAME OF IT", "RUNNING AWAY WITH THE BROOK", "SPLITTERS", "HOPE DEFERRED", "MOTHER EARTH RATHER THAN AUNT FORTUNE", "COUNSEL, CAKES AND CAPTAIN PARRY", "DIFFICULTY OF DOING RIGHT", "LOSES CARE ON THE CAT'S BACK", "SHOWING THAT IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES WHITE IS BLACK", "HEADSICK AND HEARTSICK", "FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS", "SHOWS HOW MR. VAN BRUNT COULD BE SHARP UPON SOME THINGS", "HOW MISS FORTUNE WENT OUT AND PLEASURE CAME IN", and "SWEEPING AND DUSTING".

This is the verso of the title page to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. It is blank.

This is the title page to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The page begins with the title and the author underneath. Following the author is stated "With a Preface" In gothic-style font. Rev. C. B. Tayler is credited underneath with the preface. Between two simple zierrats underneath appears "WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY M. E. DEAR.". Beneath the illustration credit is an excerpt from Longfellow's "To a Child." The page ends with the publisher and their address.

This is the verso of the front flyleaf of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page is blank.

This is the recto of the front flyleaf of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page is blank except for a small signature in pen in the top right corner of the page from a previous owner.

This is the verso of the second page of front advertisements in the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page, though blank in printing, has been heavily written on by previous owners in both pencil and pen. The writing is illegible.

This is the title page to the 1853 H.G. Bohn Reprint, Version 2. The Wide, Wide World by Elizabeth Wetherell is written on the top half of the page, followed by Longfellow's poem, "To a Child." The publisher's address and 1853 is written at the bottom of the page. 198 is written in red ink at the top right corner of the page.

This is the second page of the table of contents for the 1853 H.G. Bohn Reprint, Version 2. On page vi, contents is written at the top of the page, with the chapter titles and their page numbers written below it. Chapters XIX-XLIV are listed on pages 173-413.

This is the first page of the table of contents for the 1853 H.G. Bohn Reprint, Version 2. Contents is written on the top third of the page, followed by a decorative rule, the chapter titles, and page numbers. Chapters I-XVIII are listed on pages 1-161. 198 is written in red ink on the top right corner of the page, and there is a stamp from Rook Lane Sunday School on the top middle of the page above Contents.

This is the back pastedown of the 1853 H.G. Bohn Reprint, Version 2. The cream-colored page is filled with many small brown shapes. It looks like the front pastedown.