Title:
Dark archives : a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin
Author:
Rosenbloom, Megan, 1981- author.
ISBN:
9780374134709
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
ix, 274 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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.
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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