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This is the back advertisement in the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. Reprint, Version 1. This advertisement is ripped on the top left corner, obscuring much of the title and subtitle of the page. The first section of books listed are title which are priced at "ONE SHILLING EACH". These titles include "TABLE TURNING AND TABLE TALKING", "BEECHER'S LECTURES ON INTEMPERANCE", "TO YOUNG MEN ON THE VICES", "FERN LEAVES, FROM FANNY'S PORTFOLIO", "HISTORY OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION", "THE CHRISTMAS STOCKING" by Miss Wetherell, and "MRS. CHISHOLM'S EMIGRANT'S GUIDE". Below are books which are priced at "EIGHTEENPENCE EACH" These titles include Southworth's "Curse of Clifton", "Christmas Evening Legends", and "Mark Sutherland", Cumming's "The Lamlighter", Dennys's "Alpha", Carey's "Clovernook", the Glenluna Family's "Dollars and Cents", "Fern Leaves, From Fanny's Portfolio", Denison's "Home Pictures", "Loves of an Apothecary", and Mathews's "Moneypenny". Below the book listings is the name and address of the publisher.

This is the recto of the back advertisement in the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The page is blank except for some minor foxing. There is a tear on the upper right hand corner.

This is the verso of page xi of the preface to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. It is blank and intact.

This is the second page of the table of contents for the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page contains the chapters, "SHOWING 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 INT HE 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 GROWS WIDER", "HOW OLD FRIENDS WERE INVESTED WITH THE REGALIA", "THOUGHT IS FREE", "TRIALS WITHOUT", "TRIALS WITHIN", and "THOU!".

This is the first page of the table of contents for the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The title of the page "CONTENTS" appears in gothic-style font, separated from the chapter titles by a simple zierrat. The chapters listed on this page are, "BREAKING THE NEWS", "GIVES SORROW TOTHE 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 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".

This is the verso of the title page to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. It is blank.

This is the title page to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. The page begins with the title and the author underneath. Following the author is stated "With a Preface" In gothic-style font. Rev. C. B. Tayler is credited underneath with the preface. Between two simple zierrats underneath appears "WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY M. E. DEAR.". Beneath the illustration credit is an excerpt from Longfellow's "To a Child." The page ends with the publisher and their address.

This is the verso of the front flyleaf of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page is blank.

This is the recto of the front flyleaf of the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page is blank except for a small signature in pen in the top right corner of the page from a previous owner.

This is the verso of the second page of front advertisements in the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. reprint, version 1. This page, though blank in printing, has been heavily written on by previous owners in both pencil and pen. The writing is illegible.