02804cam a2200289 i 4500 448398789 TxAuBib 20210209120000.0 200608s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020023645 9780374134709 HRD 26.00 0374134707 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib rda Rosenbloom, Megan, 1981- Dark archives [BOOK] : a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human skin / Megan Rosenbloom. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. ix, 274 pages : illustration ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-258) and index. 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. On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy―the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, innocents, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives―captivating and macabre in all the right ways―she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject. Provided by publisher. 20210209. Anthropodermic books.