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Museum staff believe the binding and corners of this book are made using the skin of 19th ... The Suffolk books bound in human skin The story of the 1827 murder in Polstead, Suffolk, shocked ...
Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...
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 ...
Many of the more than 1,000 leathery tombs on display at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey in Champagne were made with seal and walruses skin ... faded to brown. The authors of the books were known ...
Books with furry ... The cover isn’t made from fabric or paper, but rather an “atypical” leather with hair still attached. “In historical library catalogues, the skin is described as ...