The aged portrait survived three early printings until the fourth printing of 1903 when it was dropped altogether to make way for illustrated endpapers.
Traditionally, in hand-bound books, the endpaper was just a sheet of blank or ornamented paper physically masking and reinforcing the connection between the cover and the body of the book.
The endpapers contain text arranged in circular patterns and printed backwards on a background corresponding to the colors associated with each character.
