Books made of human skin are a strange thing to read. Yet it is to this type of book that the American Megan Rosenbloom has devoted her own book. In "Books in Human Skin - An Investigation into Anthropodermic Bibliopoeia", Miss Rosebloom - who is also a librarian - looks back at the history of these books, which are rare, unique and therefore necessarily fascinating for some. In the course of her research, she even founded the Anthropodermic Book Project, intended to identify all those that exist; she has reportedly listed about fifty of them in the world. Books in skin are good, but in tattooed skin it's even better, one might add. History records some of them, and in France in particular, the one made from the skin of the criminal Louis-Marius Rambert, which he bequeathed to the criminologist Jean Lacassagne, before being bound in Lyon. However, it should be remembered that under French law, it is forbidden to trade in the human body, in its entirety or in part. « Dark Archives », Megan Rosenbloop - MacMillan - 288p. - 26$
