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This black and white illustration, appearing on page 516a of the [1890] Frederick Warne and Co. reprint, depicts a ship on a rough sea. The illustration first appeared without color in James Nisbet's 1853 Author's Edition (see 3WIS). The image depicts a large ship on a dark, rough sea. The ship is heading towards the horizon as the sun rises. A caption below the illustration quotes a sentence from page 516 and reads, "The voyage was peaceful and prosperous," contrasting the roughness of the sea.

This is the final page of text in volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The page is 334 with The Wide Wide World typed in Italics as a header. The text of the page goes roughly a third of the length down the page. Halfway between the end of the text and the end of the page is printed "THE END." in bold.

This is the first page of text in the 1853 T. Nelson & Sons "Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside" Reprint. The page begins with the book's title at approximately 1/6 way down the page. After the title is a simple zierrat with the Chapter underneath. Underneath the chapter title is an excerpt from Longfellow's "It is not always May".

This is the first page of text in the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The title of the book appears approximately 1/4 down the page. Underneath the title is a plain zierrat which separates the book title from "CHAPTER I". Underneath the chapter is the last verse from Longfellow's "It is not Always May". Below the poem is where the chapter starts.

This is the first page of text in volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The title, "THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD." appears approx. 4 cm. down the page in bold. Underneath the title is a Zierrat with a simple line design and three diamonds symmetrically placed. The chapter title does not appear, but "CHAPTER I." is typed underneath the ..... beneath the chapter, are lines 55-58 of Robert Burn's "Tam O' Shanter". Burns name appears in bold after the poem on the page.

This is the first page of text in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The page begins with the novel's title approximately 1/4 down the page. A simple zierrat follows and proceed the Chapter. underneath the chapter is an excerpt from Longfellow's "It is not Always May". The chapter begins after the excerpt.

This is the second page of the table of contents in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. The chapters on this page are: "Shows what noise a bee can make when it gets into the house", "Sundry things round a Pot of Chocolate", "The Jingling of Sleigh-bells", "Scraps-of Morocco and Talk", "Stockings, to which the 'bas bleu' was nothing", "Sunday at Ventnor", "Flowers and Thorns", "The Bank Note and George Washington", "A Gathering Cloud in the Spring Weather", "The Cloud Overhead", "This 'Working-day World", "The Brownie", "Timothy and his Master", "Wherin the Black Prince arrives opportunely", "Halcyon Days", "Prodigious", "the Clouds Return after the Rain", "One less in the Wide, Wide World", "Those that were left", "The little Spirit that haunted the Big House", "The Guardian Angel", "Something Turns up", "The Wide World grown Wider", "How old Friends were invested with the Regalia", "Thought is Free", "Trials without", "Trials within" and "Thou!". Each chapter has it's corresponding Roman Numeral on the left hand side of the page and the page number on the right connected by a line of elipses.

This is the first page of the table of contents in the 1852 T. Nelson & Sons reprint, version 1. This page begins with the title "CONTENTS" followed by a simple underline. The chapters listed on this page are: "Breaking the News", "Gives sorrow to the Winds", "The Worth of a Finger-ring", "The bitter-sweet of Life", "A peep into the Wide World", "Night and Morning", 'Strangers walk as Friends', "Leaves us in the Street", "The Little Queen in the Arm-Chair", "Mud-and what came of it", "Running away with the Brook", "Splitters", "Hope Deffered", "Work not Deferred", "Mother Earth rather than Aunt Fortune", "Counsel, Cakes, and Captain Parry", "Difficulty of Doing Right", "Loses care on the Cat's Back", "Showing that in some circumstances White is Black", "Headsick and Heartsick", "Footsteps of Angels", "Shows how Mr. Van Brunt could be sharp upon some things", "How Miss Fortune went out and Pleasure came in", and "Sweeping and Dusting". Each chapter has its corresponding Roman numeral on the left hand column and its corresponding page number on the right.

This is the recto of the back flyleaf of the 1853 Eli Charles Eginton & Co. "Pocket Library" Reprint.

This is the verso of the last page of text in the 1853 Eli Charles Eginton & Co. "Pocket Library" Reprint.