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This is the third page of the back advertisements in the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint. These advertisements feature other books in Bohn's Standard Library, with categories, Bohn's Antiquarian Library and Bohn's Miniature Library. This back pastedown has a decorative blue border. The words are written in blue as well.

This is the second page of the back advertisements in the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint. These advertisements feature other books in Bohn's Standard Library, with categories, Bohn's Classical Library and Bohn's Illustrated Library. This page has a decorative blue border, and words are written in blue as well.

This is the first page of the back advertisements in the 1853 H.G. Bohn "Standard Library" Reprint.These advertisements feature other books in Bohn's Standard Library, with categories, Bohn's Ecclesiastical Library and Bohn's Shilling Series. This page has a decorative blue border, and words are written in blue as well.

This is the one hundred forty-seventh page of text with an inscription in the 1853 H.G. Bohn Reprint, Version 2. Above the text is written in cursive, "It must have been," and "What a wet house."

This is the first page of text in the 1853 H.G. Bohn Reprint, Version 1. The Wide, Wide World is on the top third of the page, followed by a decorative rule and Chapter 1. A portion of Longfellow's "It Is Not Always May" is under Chapter 1, with the text following it.

In this letter Ella Blake, a woman from Wisconsin, wrote to Susan Warner and her sister Anna to inform them of the impression Ellen Montgomery made on her childhood. She tells them that she has read the novel so many times it was necessary to have it rebound.

In the title page of George Routledge and Sons, Limited's 1899 edition of the novel, the title is printed in the top quarter of the page without a period. The author's pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell is printed below. An inscription taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's, "To a Child," appears in the page's middle. The novel is listed as an edition including six colored plates. George Routledge and Sons Limited's address is listed as, "London, Broadway, Ludgate Hill," and "Manchester and New York."

George Palmer Putnam used this as the copyright page of the 1853 second issue containing both volumes in one book. This page shows that this book was "entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, BY G. P. PUTNAM & Co., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." It also credits the stereotyper and printer of the book.

This fan letter written to Warner from Mary Barnes, a woman from Derbyshire. Barnes critiqued the women in her country for their inadequacies compared to the idealized characters Warner developed.