Fasting.- Very Extraordinary Life (The) and Singular Characteristics of Mr. Cavanagh the Celebrated Fasting Man..., woodcut portrait frontispiece and title vignette, frontispiece creased at inner-edge, backed with modern marbled paper without covers, C. Lowe, 1841 § Umfreville (Thomas) The Case of Mr. John Ferguson, of Argyleshire in Scotland, who Hath lived above Eighteen Years only on Water, Whey, or Barley-Water..., lacking half-title, few chips to margins including to head of title, final few ff. with faint damp-staining to head, dust-soiling to verso of final f., spotting, lightly browned throughout, old stab-holes to inner margin, disbound, for W. Reason, [1743] § The New Society of Cavanerites, Who live without Eating!!..., final f. reinforced at inner-margin, leaves loose, unbound, W. Dever, 1858 [dated by hand in pencil to final f.]; and another, very similar to the first mentioned but incomplete, 8vo (4)
⁂ Once famed for his fasting, Bernard Cavanagh of county Mayo was convicted as a fraud and sentenced to three months’ hard labour in 1842.
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