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It contains the works of Paradise Lost poet John Milton and to the naked eye appears to be like any other book from the 19th century. But a closer inspection of this 1852 edition of The Poetical Works will reveal a macabre discovery - it is bound with human skin .
Executed murderer George Cudmore's body was stripped of its flesh shortly after he was hanged for killing his lover. Cudmore, a rat catcher by trade, poisoned Sarah Dunn with a potion of roasted apple and milk, laced with arsenic.
He was tried and sentenced to death in March 1830, in front of a thousand-strong crowd in Exeter, Devon.
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