General Information

Author/Creator

Rosenbloom, Megan, 1981- author.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

Physical Description

274 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"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"--

Subjects

Subject

Anthropodermic books.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Megan Rosenbloom.

Content

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.

ISBN

9780374134709

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Archival, library and information sciences collection	002 ROS		Reference	-

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