'Ghost Face' in human skin-covered book - Gerard Tubb


	'Ghost Face' in human skin-covered book - Gerard Tubb

mickfinn

11-30-2007 11:25 PM

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gunpower, plot, parliament

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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1294663,00.html?f=rss"><H2>A 400-year-old book covered in a sheet of wrinkled human skin is going under the hammer in a bizarre auction.</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1294663,00.html?f=rss"><P>It is thought the skin was cut from the corpse of one of Guy Fawkes' fellow conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1294663,00.html?f=rss"><P>And if you hold the novel in the right light, you might even see a ghostly face on the cover, it is claimed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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