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9. BOOKS IN HUMAN SKIN: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy


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Anthropodermic Books: 

  • The Anthropodermic Book Project – A research project to identify the world's books bound in human skin
  • Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
  • The macabre world of books bound in human skin
  • Anthropodermic Bibliopegy – A Flay on Words – Odd Things Considered
  • Tanneries of human skin? Meudon
  • Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: Books Bound in Human Skin
  • 'Dark Archives' Explores The Use Of Human Skin In Bookbinding
  • Seeking the Truth Behind Books Bound in Human Skin
  • The Hide That Binds | by Mike Jay
  • Books Bound in Human Skin Aren't Fiction and a UCLA Librarian Has the Story
  • Books Bound in Human Skin – The Practice Isn’t As Rare As You Might Think!
  • A Book by Its Cover | Lapham's Quarterly
  • Science Confirms: Yup, This Book Really Is Bound in Human Skin
  • The Skin She Lived In: Anthropodermic Books in the Historical Medical Library
  • In a literal bind
  • Hay Library's Special Collections offer more than a human skin-bound book
  • Anthropodermic bibliopegy

Hans Holbein:

  • Hans Holbein's Dance of Death (1523–5) – The Public Domain Review
  • Hans Holbein: Dance of Death
  • Danse Macabre

Andreas Vesalius:

  • From the library's historical treasures < Yale School of Medicine
  • L'Histoire de la reliure de Josse Schavye
  • The self-publicist whose medical text books caused a stir
  • Public Dissection Was a Gruesome Spectacle
  • (PDF) Stolen and lost copies of Vesalius's Fabrica

M. Adolphe Belot:

  • Mademoiselle Giraud, my wife
  • Mademoiselle Giraud, Ma femme, and: Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (review)
  • In the Flesh? Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Verification and Its Implications  

Burke and Hare:

  • The Worlds of Burke and Hare

James Allen

  • Narrative of the life of James Allen : alias George Walton, alias Jonas Pierce, alias James H. York, alias Burley Grove, the highwayman : being his death-bed confession, to the warden of the Massachusetts State Prison. - Rare Books -

History of Anatomy

  • The study of anatomy in England from 1700 to the early 20th century
  • History of anatomy
  • History of medicine in France
  • Human cadaveric dissection: a historical account from ancient Greece to the modern era
  • Murder Act 1751
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