04 Aug 2006
Was human skin really used in book binding?

Apparently this wasn't as uncommon as I supposed, or as the original article from Yahoo! (now unavailable, apparently) made it out to be. So I stand corrected.

The use of human skin to bind books would disgust us today, but it was fairly widely practiced up until about 200 years ago, particularly with medical books.

(link) [The Register]

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