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a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin
A medical librarian presents a fascinating, terrifying look into history's rarest books, those bound in human skin, and the stories of their creation and collection.
The First Printing -- This Dreadful Workshop -- Gentlemen Collectors -- Skin Craft -- Secrets of the Sages-Femmes -- The Long Shadow of the Night Doctors -- The Postmortem Travels of William Corder -- Echoes of Tanner's Close -- The Highwayman's Gift -- Ghosts in the Library -- My Corpse, My Choice -- The French Connection -- Epilogue: Humane Anatomy -- The Anthropodermic Book Project's List of Confirmed Human Skin Books as of March 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.