[Alex Murphy]

Happy belated Guy Fawkes Day, everyone!

[ArrogantBustard]

The book was made by Robert Barker, the king's printer, just months after Father Garnet's execution for his alleged involvement in a plot instigated after the king reneged on his promises to end the persecution of Catholics.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m waiting for the Necronomicon to come up for auction.

[HarleyD]

Oooooo...this is soooooo gross.

[N. Theknow]

The macabre, 17th-century book tells the story of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and is covered in the hide of Father Henry Garnet.

Ah, the plot is fleshed out at last.

[Eva]

Eww..., my family traces back to a Garnet in England, about that same time. He was supposed to have been a “Lord” or something. His daughter ran away with a servant’s son.

[Andrew Byler]

Would you be so chipper if this was a Nazi Lampshade made with Jewish skin being auctioned off?

[Hacksaw]

Happy belated Guy Fawkes Day, everyone!

You think making a book out of a Catholic priest's skin is funny? You're a real bottom feeder.

[Thoramir]

That’s just sick.

[Alex Murphy]

From the article Rare and Well Done...

Although civil rights footage and information relating to black history are the most requested items of the department, Special Collections [Department of the Ned McWherter Library at the University of Memphis] has many other gems that fall into no particular category. For example, hidden within its archives is the 400-year-old book Lidolatrie Huguenote, a French-Catholic response to Protestantism. The most interesting thing about this book, however, is not its age, but its binding. The book was published in 1608 using anthropodermic binding, meaning the cover was made from human skin.

Title page, Lidolatrie Huguenote

From the article Books Bound in Human Skin; Lampshade Myth?

While their credibility is questionable, there are some historical reports of a 13th century bible and a text of the Decretals (Catholic canon law) written on human skin.