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This is the title page to volume 2 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint. The title is printed in the top quarter of the page, as well as the alternative title, "The Early History of Ellen Montgomery." In the page's middle is a line crediting the editor, a "Clergyman of the Church of England." The edition is stated as the second of two volumes. Sampson Low's address is listed as "London, 169, Fleet Street."

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."

This is the verso of the table of contents for volume 1 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint.

This is the first page of the table of contents for volume 1 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint. "Contents of Vol. 1" is written above a decorative rule with the chapters written in Roman numerals below it. Each chapter has its own title.

This is the verso of page v of the preface to volume 1 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint.

This is the title page to volume 1 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint. The title is printed in the top quarter of the page, as well as the alternative title, "The Early History of Ellen Montgomery." In the page's middle is a line crediting the editor, a "Clergyman of the Church of England." The edition is stated as the first of two volumes. Sampson Low's address is listed as "London, 169, Fleet Street."

In this letter Eugenia Saddler asks both sisters for advice on how to become a successful woman author. She talks about her ambitions and gives them praise for their works.

George Palmer Putnam included this Table of Contents in the first volume of their 1851 edition of The Wide, Wide World. This page lists the first 28 chapters with the corresponding titles and pages.

This is the last page of the preface to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The top right corner is marked with the pages' roman numeral. At the end of the text the author of the preface, Charles B. Tayler, is named. Underneath Tayler is written "Otley Rectory, Ipswich, Dec. 23rd, 1853."