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This is the eleventh page of text in volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition.

This is the third page of text in volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition. Chapter XXIX, the first chapter of this volume, begins with a portion of Robert Burn's poem, "Halloween."

This is the second page of the table of contents for volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition. On page iv, it lists chapters XX-XXVIII.

This is the first page of the table of contents for volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition. "Contents of Chapters" is written at the top third of the page with Volume 1 under it. Each chapter, labeled in Roman numerals, has a title and a page number. Chapters I-XIX are on this page.

This is the ninth page of text in volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition. The beginning of chapter one on page nine features The Wide, Wide World above a decorative rule, on the top third of the page. An excerpt from Henry Wadsworth Longellow's poem, "It Is Not Always May," is featured under the decorative rule. The text begins halfway down the page.

This is the first page of text in volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3. It features an epigraph taken from Longfellow's "It Is Not Always May." The Wide, Wide World is at the top of the page in all capitals, with a decorative rule under it.  Chapter 1 follows the decorative rule, with the epigraph and text under it.

This is the back pastedown of volume 1 of the 1851 George P. Putnam 1st Edition, Version 3.

This is the verso of the second back flyleaf of 1851 George P. Putnam First Edition, Version 3.

Volume 2 of the 1851 George P. Putnam is covered with a blue leather grain embossed buckram (labeled Lea5 by the Library Company of Philadelphia). The front and back covers have an arabesque border. Both front and back panels have a publisher's mark, a scroll work "P." The title is gilt-stamped at the top of the spine; "Putnam" is gilt-stamped at the bottom edge of the spine.

This is the recto of the back fly leaf of volume 2 of the 1851 George Palmer Putnam 1st Edition, version 3.