Wednesday, April 06, 2011

A John Milton Book Wrapped in the Skin of a Murderer


Morbidly intrigued?

From a piece on Press TV...

The 19th-century book features the skin of George Cudmore who was found guilty of murder, The Inquisitor reported.

After he was killed, Cudmore's body was sent to the Devon and Exeter Hospital where a piece of his skin was given to a bookseller called Mr. W. Clifford.

The Exeter bookseller used the skin to bind the 1852 edition book which contains poetry pieces from Milton's masterpiece Paradise Lost.

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