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The practice of binding books with human skin is known as “anthropodermic bibliopegy,” according to the American Bookbinders Museum. The technique dates back to at least the 16th century, but ...

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 notorious killer ...

Legend has it that a female admirer of Flammarion bequeathed her skin to bind his book – which is stamped “reliure en peau humaine, 1880 (“human skin binding, 1880”).

Heritage assistant Abbie Smith got to hold the books on her first day in the job and said they felt "like a real book". "If you did not tell people it was bound in human skin, I do not really ...

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 office. The work is understood to be made using the skin of William Corder ...