The cover of a book held at a Suffolk museum was recently found to be made from the skin of a man hanged for a notorious murder almost 200 years ago. So what do we know of William Corder and the ...

A second copy of a book bound in the skin of a notorious 19th-century murderer is now on display at a museum in Suffolk, England. Talk about a morbid read... A book bound in the skin of one of the ...

Why Trust Us? Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books with leather made from human skin. Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum just discovered a book bound with the skin of ...

But if I remove my socks, they will all see my legs— my legs with dry, wrinkled skin that has formed cracks which look like the scales on a crocodile’s back or remind one of those photos of ...

Talk about a morbid read... A book bound in the skin of one of the UK's most notorious murderers is about to go on display at Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK. The tome, reportedly ...

Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were wrapped with boar or deer skin. But when book conservator Élodie Lévêque looked at them through a microscope, she was stumped.

Museum staff believe the binding and corners of this book are made using the skin of 19th Century murderer William Corder A book bound in the skin of one of the UK's most notorious murderers is to ...

Several of the books were bound in harbor seal skin, and at least one came from a harp seal. Comparing them with contemporary DNA suggests an origin of the seals in Scandinavia and Scotland ...

We all love clear, healthy skin, and in the ever-evolving world of beauty, the quest for that radiance continues to inspire new remedies and rituals. A quick search online reveals countless tips, ...

The hair-raising 13th century reads were previously thought to be bound with local boar and deer skin, the report states. “Contrary to the prevailing assumption that books were crafted from ...

This book is among nearly 100 found in France by researchers at the University of Cambridge to be bound with seal skin. The books belong to a French monastery from the 12th century. (Matthew ...