Six Months at Graefenberg; with Conversations in the Saloon, on Nonresistance and Other Subjects

London: Charles Gilpin, 1845. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm). In brown cloth, stamped in blind on boards, titled in gold on spine; yellow endpapers; viii, 358, [2]pp; with two pages of publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece portrait. Bookplate of Rachel R. Janes; ownership inscription of Edward Wayne, 1946. Slightly cocked, faded, and rubbed; sewing slightly loosened with one or two gatherings lightly pulled; two-inch split to cloth over rear hinge; minor foxing and fingersoil throughout: Good or better.

Reformer and abolitionist Wright (1797-1870) became ill during an 1840s trip to the U.K. and was sent to Graefenberg, "a famous water-cure establishment in Silesia" (ANB). His account simultaneously discusses health treatments, pacifism, and nonresistance. Uncommon in the trade, with 5 copies recorded in OCLC. See PERRY (Childhood, Marriage, and Reform) p.350.