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A Book by Its Cover: The strange history of books bound in human skin (laphamsquarterly.org)
19 points by Petiver on Oct 24, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



The Athenaeum in Boston has one of these: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/boston-athenaeum


My university's library has one of those in the Special Collections sections that can be viewed if requested. Actually they're putting it up for display on Halloween.




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