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This is the first page of front advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th Edition, version 2. This is the first page of advertisements which is also the Verso of the Front cover. This page of advertisements only features the novel Queechy by Elizabeth Wetherell. The top of the page is titled "THE FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE SEASON:" Underneath that title is slightly illegible due to damage, however, it is discernable that Putnam's name appears in the later part of the title and that the begining of the extended advertisement is marked with the Roman Numeral I.

This is the first page of front advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The page begins with "VALUABLE NEW AND STANDARD WORKS," at the top of the page, followed by, "RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY" in smaller font. Below that is typed "Geo. P. Putnam, 10 Park Place.", Though Putnam's name has been mostly covered by foxing. There is a zierrat beneath the publisher. Underneath is in bold typed "LATEST PUBLICATIONS" these publications are: Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush, Lothrop's Dollars and Cents, Hind's The Solar System, Hood's Up the Rhine, Bryant's The Cooper Memorial, Kennedy's Horse Shoe Robinson, Taylor's A New Work on the East, Pfeiffer's Journey to Iceland, Putnam's Supplement to the "World's Progress" to close of 1851, Coxe's A Buckeye Abroad, Parkman's Prarie and Rocky Mountain Life, Layard's Fresh Researchers at Nineveh and Nineveh and its Remains, Cooper's Naval History of the U.S. and [illegible] The Shield, St. John's The Hand-Book of Science, Callicot's The Hand-Book of Universal Geography, Macfarlane's A New Work on Japan, Silliman's Journal of a Visit to Europe in 1851, Mayo's Kaloolah, a Romance, Olmsted's An American Farmer in England, Spencer's The East; Travels in Egypt and Holy Land, Hawks's [illegible] of Central and Western America, and Green's On the polypi of the Larynx and On Bronchitis. 

This is the first page of the front advertisements in the 1853 Eli Charles Eginton & Co. "Pocket Library" Reprint. This page advertises the "The Pocket Library" series, which comes in monthly volumes. The words are surrounded by a single, black line.

this is the first page of advertisements from the Ward, Lock & Co. 1882 edition. It include a list of other books from the "Lily Series"

This front page advertisement for the 1853 Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton shows the prices of "LITERATURE FOR THE RAIL," available to those on trains in that time period. The book titles listed on this page are: Illustrated History of the Expedition to the Crimea, The Smartest Nation in All Creation's Grins, The Yankee Showman's Life of Barnum, Yankee Cram, Poe's Tales of Myster, Imagination, and Humour, Mrs. Stowe's Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Hugo's Napoleon the Little, Parisan Sights and French Principles Seen Through American Spectacles, Life among the Giants of Patagonia, Houssaye's Philosophers and Actresses, Letters, Essays, and Speeches of Peter Plymley, The Senator's Son, Smith and Smith's Rejected Addresses, Nile Notes of a "Howadji", Twenty Years in the Phillippine Islands, The Old Guard of Napoleon, and Wellington: The Story of his Life, Battles, and Political Career.