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First Page of Text in Volume 1 of the 1853 G.P. Putnam & Co. "Illustrated Edition" Reprint

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This first page of text from the 1853 George Palmer Putnam, Vol. 1 includes the epigraph:

"Enjoy the spring of love and youth

    To some good angel leave the rest,

For time will teach thee soon the truth,

    'There are no birds in last year's nest.'

                                           LONGFELLOW."

Identifier: 11CIA_16_9

First Page of Text in Volume 1 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint

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This is the first page of text in volume 1 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint. It features a decorative rule under The Wide, Wide World. An epigraph is under the decorative rule with a portion of Longfellow's poem "It Is Not Always May."

Subjects: Text Opener

Identifier: 56CIA_27