"The bynding of this booke is all that remains of my deare friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632." (The Wavuma appear to be an African tribe.) Many of the first books covered in human skin are in private libraries throughout the world. One would be surprised how many of these books are in the nation's finest libraries, including the Harvard University Libraries. There are several books bound in human skin. The skin was from an eight feet six inch Ringling Brothers Circus Giant by the name of Perky. Other human bound books can be found at Brown University, University of Memphis in Tennessee, the University of Kansas Medical Center. The art of bookbinding has been around since the 1st century AD. Over the course of time, various mediums have been used to cover the outside of the books. Leather and cloths have been the most common materials used in the binding of book. Would you believe the most unusual material used to cover the court journal and presented to the victim's family or for a book to be published about the criminal. Another book bound by the skin of its previous
The Highwayman
moonlight, over the brow of the hill, The highwayman came riding, Riding, riding! This is the original version of The Highwayman, copyrighted 1906, 1913.
Highwayman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term 'highwayman' is mainly applied to robbers who travelled on horseback, Edmund Blackadder turns highwayman in the episode Amy and Amiability.
The Highwayman - Noyes
The Highwayman.I.THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, And the highwayman came riding.— Riding—riding .PART ONE