The wet day; Or, Nothing happens to man but what Is intended for his good. by ANONYMOUS

Published under the direction of The committee of general literature and education, Appointed by the society for promoting Christian knowledge. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Sold at the depositories: 77, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; 4, Royal Exchange; 48, Piccadilly; And by all booksellers, N.D. [but post 1872, and probably 1873 or 1874 - v. note]. 24pp., Demy 18mo, in sixes; sewn as a single gathering into plain white paste-down end-papers, glazed lilac wrappers, cut flush, printed outside in black (the back wrapper with type ornaments), left free at spine; free end-papers and half-title not called for; wood-engraved frontispiece; pp.24. Owner’s signature neatly written in ink on front pastedown; two faint embrowned outlines on corners of final page of text where protective over-wrapper put on by owner and secured to itself with strips of gummed paper has been removed; otherwise a fine copy. Rare. Juvenile. Denominated ‘Class 2’ on the front wrapper. Dated primarily from the form of the imprint: 48 Piccadilly having been introduced to replace the 16, Hanover Street address in 1872, and commas [re-]introduced after the street numbers, as here, a year or two later. A later printing. COPAC records copies at Birmingham and V & A Libraries only, the latter having the Hanover Street address and the printers’ imprint Richard Clay. The printers’ imprint on the present copy reads: ‘Printed by Truscott, Son, & Simmons, Suffolk-lane, City.’ This form of the imprint of a firm later known as Jas. Truscott & Son appears to have been used at least fom 1859 to 1874, and since a similar volume from the same source could be dated from external evidence 1874, that seems the likely date of the present volume. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.