BIZARRE BOOKBINDING USING HUMAN SKIN - anthropodermic bibliopegy - A book bound in the skin of a 19th century Devonshire criminal George Cudmore who poisoned his wife with arsenic. Following his execution for murdering his wife after being caught up in a love triangle, after his execution his skin was removed by an Exeter surgeon and kept rolled up for 20 years.

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