The book, titled Polstead—William Corder, has now been added to the museum's exhibition, where it is displayed alongside the first skin-bound book, which has been part of the collection since 1933.

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Moyse’s Hall Museum in Suffolk has put on display a book bound in the skin of William Corder, who was executed for the Red ...

Curators think the volume's corners and spine are bound in the skin of William Corder, an infamous criminal who was convicted ...

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 ...

Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...

Now, nearly two centuries later, a second such book has emerged.

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”). Due to containing ...

The book tells the story of the murderer William Corder who was hanged at Bury St Edmunds in 1828 for killing his lover Maria Marten and burying her beneath the floor of a barn.