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This is the first of four "editor's page"s in The Girl's Own Paper: Supplementary Volume [1915]. It originally appeared in the special Christmas issue for 1911.

The front cover of The Girl’s Own Paper: Supplementary Volume [1911 – 1915] is composed of red cloth on cardboard with gold-stamped lettering and a pasted image of a girl's face. Part of the image has been torn off.

The front free-end paper of The Girl’s Own Paper: Supplementary Volume [1911] includes inscriptions by two distinct and unknown hands. These inscriptions elucidate the book’s history of ownership.

Cropped image from the Agas Map from the Map of Early Modern London depicting the proximity of the Tower of London to the Thames.

Steel engraving illustration of Captain Cook's ship arriving in Polynesia, from The Cannibal Islands

Frontispiece from The Cannibal Islands with details from each of the 18 books included in the collection entitled Ballantyne's Miscellany

Cover of Over the Rocky Mountains

Cover of Sunk at Sea

Inside cover of Plays with table of contents handwritten by previous owners, ownership stamp in vol. 2, and Victoria College Library bookplates

Page 210 of the 1963 Heinemann edition of The Bell Jar.

Example cover of an issue of The Body Politic

A picture depicting protesters being arrested by police at an Earth First protest in Toronto.

The cover of Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean Paul Sartre, 1957

A cropped image of the Gower's opening lines from the Third Folio second edition of Pericles. The Elizabethan spelling would have been left up to the compositor, in this case, there were likely three.

Photo of Ethel Wilson at the Malkin Family outdoor tea (Wilson is pictured in the back row, 6th person from the right)

photograph: Ethel Wilson in greenhouse