A Boston Book Bound in Human Skin
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audio
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History
Places & Travel
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Apr 29, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:21:43

In Episode 193, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the Boston Athenaeum in search of a rare book -- the 1837 memoirs and deathbed confession of thief and highwayman James Allen, alias George Walton (among others). Allen’s dying wish was to have one copy of the book bound in leather made from the skin of his own back. That one copy is embossed with the Latin: Hic Liber Waltonis Cute Compactus Est. - This book is bound in the skin of Walton.

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