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A book bound in the skin of one of the UK's most notorious murderers is to go on display after being found in a museum's ...
Moyse’s Hall Museum in Suffolk has put on display a book bound in the skin of William Corder, who was executed for the Red ...
The second copy was given to the museum several decades ago. Moyse's Hall Museum A rediscovered copy of a book bound in human skin is going on display at a museum in England, reports BBC News ...
Getty Harvard University announced Wednesday that it had removed human skin from the binding of ... the library has made the book available to anyone who asked for it for any reason, according ...
The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...
The work is understood to be made using the skin of William Corder ... the skin is only on the book's binding and corners. Covering books in human skin is known as anthropodermic bibliopegy.
The work is understood to be made using the skin of William Corder ... LISTEN: The Suffolk books bound in human skin The story of the 1827 murder in Polstead, Suffolk, shocked Georgian Britain.