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Book

Dark archives : a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin

Call Number

  • 095 R8137 (OSH)

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Edition

First paperback edition.

Publication Information

New York : Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Physical Description

ix, 274 pages : illustration ; 21 cm

Summary

"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"--

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.

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