Archive for November 30th, 2007

Anthropodermic bibliopegy

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Ah, a new term to add to the collection of random crap in my mind. I read a story about this book auction, which introduced me to the term anthropodermic bibliopegy - the practice of binding books in human skin.  Here’s a picture of one such book:

Sure, I’d heard of the practice vaguely, probably more [...]