Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2021
Author
Author: Megan Rosenbloom
Language
English
Number of Pages
274 pp.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
City
New York, NY
ISBN
9780374134709
Annotation

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
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