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Having just published a book called Dissection on Display, I feel compelled to share with you a series of astounding facts I’ve picked up about anatomizing the human body.  You are probably aware that “Gray’s Anatomy” is a textbook that was painstakingly compiled by British anatomist Henry Gray, long before it was a popular television [...]

The practice of binding books in human skin, also known as anthropodermic bibliopegy, is not just the stuff of dark legends and horror fiction.  It was a real technique which, although frowned upon and considered ghastly by today’s standards, was officially practiced since the 17th century.  The technique gained considerable popularity during the French Revolution and among [...]