In the Flesh? Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Verification and Its Implications

• Autores: Jacob Gordon
• Localización: RBM : A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, ISSN 1529-6407, Vol. 17, Nº. 2, 2016, págs. 118-133
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • �In teaching bookbinding I have found that mere mention of human skin aroused such curiosity and brought forward so many questions often from the meekest and usually least interested.� � Rigby Graham 1 Special collections hold a host of objects that lie outside the anticipated disintegrating newsprint or leather-bound tomes. Sometimes the items, at least as far as their provenance informs, appear to be rather abnormal. Within the Cassel Collection, held at Beeghly Library at Juniata College, was one such volume: Bibliotheca Politica.2 Abraham H. Cassel (1820�1908) collected widely during his lifetime, amassing a collection of 50,000 volumes. On the front