Anthropodermic bibliopegy

This article is about the practice. For a list of anthropodermic books, see List of books bound in human skin.
A book bound in the skin of the murderer William Burke, on display in Surgeons' Hall Museum in Edinburgh

Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. As of April 2022, The Anthropodermic Book Project has examined 31 out of 50 books[1] in public institutions supposed to have anthropodermic bindings, of which 18 have been confirmed as human and 13 have been demonstrated to be non-human leather instead.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b "The Anthropodermic Book Project". The Anthropodermic Book Project. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  2. ^ Megan Rosenbloom clarifies in this interview with Joanna Ebenstein in The Morbid Anatomy Online Journal, 16 April 2020 Archived 20 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine, that these figures do not include books tested from individuals' private collections, as opposed to libraries and museums.