clipped from: news.sky.com   

A 400-year-old book covered in a sheet of wrinkled human skin is going under the hammer in a bizarre auction.

It is thought the skin was cut from the corpse of one of Guy Fawkes' fellow conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

And if you hold the novel in the right light, you might even see a ghostly face on the cover, it is claimed.

Called "A True And Perfect Relation Of The Whole Proceedings Against The Late Most Barbarous Traitors, Garnet A Jesuit And His Confederates" it tells of the grisly end met by the Gunpowder Plotters.

Can you see a ghostly face?
It was published in 1606, just months after the Jesuit priest Henry Garnet was captured and executed for his part in the plan to blow up
Parliament.

He believes that marks on the leather are evidence of torture, and says a Latin inscription on the cover which reads "severe penitence punished the flesh" was written to make sure people knew what had happened to the victim.

Controversial book is 400 years old
The practice,
Anthropodermic bibliopegy, had a novelty value hundreds of years ago.