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To: average joe who wrote (2931)	11/14/2005 11:47:06 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (3) of 5290

Anthropodermic Bibliopegy "The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my deare friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632. King btesa did give me the book, it being one of poore Jonas chiefe possessions, together with ample of his skin to bynd it. Requiescat in pace." According to Dan Alban of the Harvard Record, there may well be hundreds of books in libraries around the world, mainly from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, that have been bound in human skin. There is even one at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia that has a tattoo. Some people deliberately bequeathed their skin to be used in this manner; however, Alban writes: The skin of executed criminals was occasionally used for book bindings. The first known example of this was the binding of Samuel Johnson's dictionary in the skin of criminal James Johnson (relation unknown), after the latter was hung in Norwich in 1818. The museum of Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, England contains a more famous example - an account of the trial proceedings against William Corder, perpetrator of the storied 'Murder in the Red Barn' of Maria Martin in 1827, bound in the executed murderer's skin. scribalterror.blogs.com

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