![]() ![]() Rosenbloom’s curiosity has led to the recent release of her first book, “Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin,” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). “That’s when I got very intrigued and wanted to follow the trail,” she said. In 2014 a new way of testing them to find out if they were genuine examples of anthropodermic bibliopegy was introduced. “I assumed that they were just another kind of artifact one can only find at the Mütter.”Īfter she became a librarian in 2008, Rosenbloom started asking around and heard there were many more alleged books than the few she had known about. “When I read the caption that they were bound in human skin by 19th century doctor bibliophiles I was totally shocked,” said Rosenbloom, a collection strategies librarian responsible for UCLA collections acquisitions. Among all of the unusual corpses in the room, she noticed some very plain looking antique books with their covers closed. ![]() ![]() Megan Rosenbloom was first introduced to the concept of anthropodermic bibliopegy, the practice of binding books in human skin, during a visit to the Mütter Museum, a medical pathology museum in Philadelphia in 2008. ![]()
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