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MOORE, Ann (1761 – 1813). Group of 3 scarce booklets on the Fasting Woman of Tutbury. Including: An Account of the Wonderful Abstinence of Ann Moor, of Tutbury. Boston: Thomas Bangs,…for Nathaniel Coverley, (1811). 8vo. 36pp. – A Statement of Facts Relative to the Supposed Abstinence of Ann Moore,…Burton-on-Trent: J. Croft, 1813. 56, lxxvi, [1, errata]. – The Life and Death of the Celebrated Ann Moore,…Plymouth-Dock: T. Philip, n.d. (ca. 1810s). 8pp. 8vo or 12mo. All in wrappers or self-wrappers (the bound in later cloth and marbled boards; morocco bookplate of Herman Wm. Kapp). Moore gained notoriety upon claiming to have eaten no food for years, and underwent supervised fasts on two separate occasions. She was later exposed as an impostor (Jay’s Journal, pp. 121-2). [With]: a wood-engraved cutting with text in three columns, of fasting impostor Bernard Cavanagh (London, ca. 1841), 15 ¼ x 7 7/8” (chipped at right edge of image; folded); backed on paper, with a manuscript obituary (1845) on verso. See Jay’s Journal, p. 117.