TIL that apprehended 19th-century highwayman James Allen requested that after his death, his memoirs should be BOUND IN HIS OWN SKIN and given to John A. Fenno, a man whom he’d shot during his criminal career

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The original link was: http://thechirurgeonsapprentice.com/2012/01/31/books-of-human-flesh-the-history-behind-anthropodermic-bibliopegy

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