8vo. x, [3], 111pp, [1]. With a lithographed frontispiece, one further lithographed plate, and numerous charming vignette line-drawings throughout text. No. 48 of an unspecified number of privately printed examples; with the caveat that 'This Extract is published for private use only. It has been "stopped" partly by a friendly hand; perhaps it would have been better if he had stopped it altogether'. An inscription (to 'Edward Harries'?) from the author is present on the limitation leaf. Original publisher's gilt-tooled blue cloth, with vignette designs to both boards. T.E.G. A little rubbed and bumped to corners, spine ends.

'In the first place, it must be borne in mind, that Obergegessingen is not intended for the young, the good, and the beautiful – naturally. It is Kur-Ort pure and simple, though perhaps these words do not describe it precisely. People who come here are damaged; they do come for the cure'.

A curious, self-consciously Pooterish account of an Englishman's summer trip to what appears to be a typical German spa town. Presented in the form of a diary, with vignette line drawings as repeated on the boards, the excursion was prescribed by a Harley Street doctor as an antidote to a life of 'dining out five nights in succession, where the dishes have been seductive and the wines rare'.

Diversions from the largely wry anthropological observations of the locals include stories of other travellers encountered and such adventures as 'The Legend of the Flycatcher of the Bodenlaube'. The German holiday provided opportunities for 'Fleisch and Wein' in much the same manner as those of the narrator's existence in London, so as far a medical cure, the trip proved an abject failure: 'the fatal record proclaimed that we had gained during our stay - the blessed waters have only agreed with us too well'.

Unrecorded by COPAC and OCLC (there is, however, a copy at Cambridge University with the title (presumably) mis-transcribed as Bac Ober- Gegessingen).