British police found a 300-year-old book bound in human skin (use Bugmenot for passwords to newspaper sites). The story explains that "it was not uncommon around the time of the French Revolution for books to be covered in human skin" and "The practice, known as anthropodermic bibliopegy, was sometimes used in the 18th and 19th centuries when accounts of murder trials were bound in the killer's skin."
How like Kafka's story "In the Penal Colony" in which prisoners were executed by having an account of their crime written on their skin using fine-bladed knives manipulated by an ingeneous machine. Read the story at that link.
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