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Dark archives : 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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenbloom, Megan, 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Anthropodermic books.
Bookbinding.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.