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This is the recto of the second front flyleaf of volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1.

This is the verso of the second front flyleaf of volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1.

In the title page for George P. Putnam's 1852 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. An inscription taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow' poem, "To a Child," appears above an image of a globe. The globe is wrapped in a banner with the line, "Ad Genium Justitia," or, "To Genius and Justice," the names Cooper, Irving, and Bryant, and Putnam's initials. The edition is stated as the first of two volumes in the sixteenth edition. George P. Putnam's address is listed as "New York, 10 Park Place." Roman numerals indicate the year of the edition, 1852.

This is the copyright page to volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1.

This is the first page of the table of contents for volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1, displaying chapters I through XIX.

This is the second page of the table of contents for volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1, displaying chapters XX through XXVIII.

This is the first page of text in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1. It features a decorative rule and the last quatrain from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "It is Not Always May."

This is the verso of the final page of text in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1.

This is the recto of the first page of the back advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1.

This is the first page of the back advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 1. The advertisement features Susan Warner's other works, Dickens's Home and Social Philosophy, The World Here and There, and Home Narratives. It also features Comeplete Works, Book of the Hudson, and Conquest of Florida by Irving.