Were Books Really Bound in Human Skin?

By the skin of our books...


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**SELECTED SOURCES & ADDITIONAL READING**

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
Rosenbloom, Megan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New York, 2020.

The Skin She Lived In: Anthropodermic Books in the Historical Medical Library
https://histmed.collegeofphysicians.o...

Poetry Month and ARB-Phillis Wheatley's Poetry
https://libapps.libraries.uc.edu/libl...

Blockley Almshouse
https://collaborativehistory.gse.upen...
Philadelphia General Hospital (Old Blockley): Philadelphians "Ain't Goin' to no Bellevue"
http://m.philaplace.org/story/897/

The History of the Necronomicon
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/...

A BINDING OF HUMAN SKIN IN THE HOUGHTON LIBRARY: A RECOMMENDATION
https://www.princeton.edu/~needham/Bo...