User:Addedentry/sandbox/Examples of anthropodermic bibliopegy
- Cincinnati: http://blog.thepreservationlab.org/2017/11/anthropodermic-bibliopegy-aka-human-skin-bindings
- Samuelson, 'Still Life' Printing History ns 16 (July 2014): 42-50 excerpt
- Leonard Smithers' Catalogue of Rare Books (April 1895) included a miniature 1858 edition of The Imitation of Christ bound in human skin by Lortic
- Kerner census: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02321007/document
Alleged:
- Anthony Askew bound Traité d'anatomie and John Hunter bound Abhandlung über die Hautkrankheiten (Thompson, page 93)
- Justine et Juliette (Thompson, page 98)
- Flammarion letter translated (Thompson, page 100)
- Grotesque reference in Huysmans novel
- Sadistic boasts by Frederick Hankey: [1] citing the Journal des Goncourt at [2] ('Et nous montrant un livre tout préparé pour la reliure ...')
- Goncourt encore: 'On me racontait que des internes avaient été renvoyés de Clamart, pour avoir livré de la peau de seins de femmes à un relieur du faubourg Saint-Germain, dont la spécialité est d’en faire des reliures de livres obscènes.' [3]
Unconfirmed
[edit]| Book details | Location | Images | Notes |
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| De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis by Séverin Pineau and other works (1663) |  London
Wellcome Library, 41286/A or EPB Bindings 14 |
Bound in 1865 by Marcellin Lortic of Paris for the bibliophile Dr Ludovic Bouland of Strasbourg with a woman's skin which he had tanned as a medical student; given to the Wellcome by Annabel Geddes, founder of the London Dungeon | Photograph 1 Photograph 2 Photograph 3 testimonial |
| Scrutinium scripturarum by Pablo de Santa Maria (Strasbourg: Johann Mentelin, 1470) |  Washington, D.C.
Incun. X .P17 Vollbehr Coll, Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA |
Library of Congress, Loan exhibition of incunabula from the Vollbehr Collection (1928), item 103 (page 5)
Identified by the FBI as ox or bull hide (Carolyn Marvin, 'The body of the text: literacy's corporeal constant', Quarterly Journal of Speech 80(2) (1994), pages 129-149; subscription required) | |
| Bibliotheces by Apollodorus (Heidelberg: Commelinus, 1599) | Athens, Georgia
PA3870 .A7 1599, Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA |
Ex Libris: The University of Georgia Skin Book (short film from 2007) | 'University of Georgia Library copy bound in human skin, according to note on flyleaf.' (Catalogue) |
| A True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceedings Against ... Garnet a Jesuite (London: Robert Barker, 1606) | Private collection | Photographs | Sold at auction, 2 December 2007 |
| Trinum magicum by Caesar Longinus (Frankfurt: Jakob Gottfried Seyler, 1673) | Brighton
156.14 L86, Jubilee Library, Brighton, UK |
Photograph | |
| Exercitatio anatomica de glandula pituitaria by Franz Sebastian Vorster and Johann Conrad von Brunner (Heidelberg: Johann David Bergmann, 1688) | Kansas City
WZ 250 B8974ee 1688, Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas, Kansas City, USA |
'Inscription verso front free endpaper: [ink] De luxe binding of / human skin from the / circus giant "Perky."' (Catalogue) | |
| Ledger in French (18th century) | Leeds
Private collection |
BBC News, Skin book owners found by police, 10 May 2006 | |
| Dissertatio de arteriis et venis intestinorum hominis by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Leiden: Dirk Haak, 1736) together with 5 other anatomical illustrations | Stanford, California
E21H .A325 1736, Lane Medical Library, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA |
'Bound in black leather made from human skin; inscription: "Dieses Buch wurde von mir in Menschenhaut gebunden, Berlin, i. Juni, 1910, Paul Kersten."' (Catalogue)
See Charles D. O'Malley, 'Bound in Full Human Skin', Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 8 (October 1953), pages 447-448 (subscription required) | |
| Anatomy epitomized and illustrated by M.N. (London: John Noon, 1737) | San Marino, California
618830, Huntington Library |
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| Essai sur l'électricité des corps by Jean-Antoine Nollet (Paris: Frères Guerin, 1746) |  Mâcon
40857, Médiathèque municipale de Mâcon, Mâcon, France |
(Thompson, Religatum, page 152) | |
 St Peter's, Nova Scotia
Nicolas Denys Museum |
Human Skin Covered Book (video) | only evidence is caption in video: 'Spanish book, 1753, reputedly covered with human skin found by Chapel Island Indains (sic), given to Rev. Leo Keats, P.P.' | |
| Poems on various subjects, religious and moral by Phillis Wheatley (London: A. Bell, 1773) | Cincinnati
PS866 .W5 1773, Archives & Rare Books Library, Blegen Library, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
Photograph | |
| Poems on various subjects, religious and moral by Phillis Wheatley (London: A. Bell, 1773) | Cincinnati
The Public Library of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
[4] | |
| French Constitution (two copies: 1789 and Dijon: Causse, 1793) | Paris
Musée Carnavalet |
Thompson, page 94; Libération | |
| Tableau des prisons de Paris by Coissin (Paris: Michel, 1795?) | Nîmes
80986, Carré d'Art Bibliothèques |
'Ex Libris : Marcellin Pellet ; Reliure en peau humaine.' (Catalogue) | |
| The Horwood Book (miscellaneous papers etc. re case of John Horwood executed for murder, 1821-1828) | Bristol
35893/36/v_i, Bristol Record Office |
Photograph | 'Bound in the skin of John Horwood' (Catalogue) On display at M Shed, Bristol |
| An Authentic and Faithful History of the Mysterious Murder of Maria Marten by James Curtis (London: Thomas Kelly, 1828) | Moyse's Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
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bound in the skin of William Corder, the murderer | |
| Pocketbook (presumably blank) (1829) | Edinburgh
Surgeons' Hall Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK |
Photograph | William Burke |
| The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White (Paris: A. & W. Galignani, 1829) |  Canberra
RB 821.708 ROG, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia |
Photograph #9 | 'Pencilled note on front free end paper of EAP copy (in Dewey run) reads : Bound in human skin.' (Catalogue)
See also 'In the Flesh?' for confirmation. |
| Narrative of the life of James Allen (Boston: Harrington, 1837) | Boston
$65 .Al57, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, USA |
Digitised version | 'Bound by Peter Low in Allen's skin, treated to look like gray deer skin; bears the cover title "Hic liber Waltonis cute compactus est," stamped in gold upon a black leather rectangle.' (Catalogue) |
| Little poems for little folks by M.S.C. (Philadelphia, Loomis & Peck, 1847) | Sold at auction in 1999 | (Thompson, Religatum, page 148) exhibited at Harvard in 1933 | |
| The Chronicles of Nawat Wuzeer Hyderabad (manuscript, 1848) | Chicago
Newberry Library, John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, VAULT Case Wing folio Y 4902 .M27 |
FAQ | |
| The poetical works of John Milton (London: William Tegg, 1852) | Exeter
s095/DEV/MIL, Westcountry Studies Library |
Photograph in BBC News report | 'Bound in skin of George Cudmore, hanged for murder, 1830' (Catalogue) |
| Catalogue des sciences médicales of the Bibliothèque impériale, later Bibliothèque nationale (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1857-1873), two volumes bound in one | Philadelphia
610B P215, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
Bound in 1887 by John Stockton Hough: see Carolyn Marvin, 'The body of the text: literacy's corporeal constant', Quarterly Journal of Speech 80(2) (1994), page 137; subscription required - or the newspaper clipping at Odd Book Bindings-Human Skin Used to Bind a Collection of Medical Books (Los Angeles Herald, May 29, 1904) Sold by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1901: see Anthropodermic Book-bindings, page 87 | |
| Le traicté de peyne (Paris: Rouquette, 1867) | New York City
\56.3f\Kauf\1868, The Grolier Club, New York, USA |
Presumably the copy mentioned in Thompson, Religatum, pages 146-167, as on indefinite loan to the Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. | |
| Koran (Bombay, 1867?) | Cleveland
John G. White Collection, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
[5] | |
| Les terres du ciel by Camille Flammarion (Paris: Didier, 1877) | Private collection, France
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Photograph | Bound in 1882 |
| La pluralité des mondes habités by Camille Flammarion (Paris: Didier, 1880) | L’observatoire Camille Flammarion, Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
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Photograph | citation |
| Odes d'Horace translated by Henri Patin (Paris: Charpentier, 1883) |
RES A 0360, Médiatheque Pierre Amalric, Albi, France |
'Exemplaire relié avec de la peau humaine prise à l'amphithéâtre de médecine de la faculté de Toulouse en décembre 1883' | |
| Lincoln, the Unknown by Dale Carnegie (New York: Century, 1932) | Philadelphia
E457.C28 1932, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA |
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| Recueil de documents concernant Rambert et Mailly compiled by Jean Lacassagne (bound in 1935 with Rambert's tattoo) | Philippe Zoummeroff collection
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Digitised version | |
| Chirurgia by Nicetas (Paris: Pierre Gaultier, 1544) | Washington, D.C. RD30 .N53 1544 folio, Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution
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Digitised version | suspected not human skin |
| Notebook (Boston, between 1770 and 1800) | London
EPB Special Bindings, Wellcome Library |
Photograph | 'The cover of this book is made of Tanned Skin of the Negro whose Execution caused the War of Independence' (tag) 'Originally thought to be an example of anthropodermic bibliopegy (human skin binding). This is now known to be false.' (Catalogue) |
| The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1640?) | Bath
Bath Central Library |
blog post
'First English edn of Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1554 [sic]) bound in human skin' cited in Karen Attar (ed.), Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (3rd edition, 2016), page 9 | |
| Opuscules philosophiques et littéraires by J.B.A. Suard (1796) | Rigby Graham article, page 16 | Bound by Nicolas-Denis Derome (1731-1790) | |
| Aur. Corn. Celsi De medicina libri octo (1722) | Edmonton
R 127 C39 1722, Bruce Peel Special Collections, University of Alberta |
Photograph | 'The most infamous book in the JW Scott Health Sciences Library's Rawlinson Rare Book Collection is the "Celsi de medicina libri octo". Published in 1722, this is the book that is purported to be bound in human skin.' |
