Megan Rosenbloom
1) Dark archives: a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy--the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world's most famous...