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

  • Rosenbloom, Megan, 1981-
Date:
2021
  • Books

About this work

Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

ix, 274 pages ; 21 cm

Contributors

Edition

First paperback edition.

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    YHG /ROS
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1250800161
  • 9781250800169