It's a topic that interests you, doesn't it? Anthropodermic Bibliopegy. Well, it IS rather fascinating, books bound in human skin. The Private Library has more somewhat queasy examples of it, here. The site mentions that the art of binding books in human skin started in the 17th century. Sometimes they would bind anatomy texts with the skin of dissected cadavers. Sometimes copies of judicial proceedings would be bound in the skin of the murder convicted in those proceedings. Sometimes they use skin with a visible tattoo!
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