THIS IS A BUNDLE OF TWO BOOKS: DARK ARCHIVES AND THE BUTCHERING ART. BOTH BOOKS
INCLUDE A BOOK PLATE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
THIS IS A PREORDER. BOOKS WILL SHIP IN EARLY NOVEMBER.
DARK ARCHIVES:
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper
and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those
bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand?
In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths
behind anthropodermic bibliopegy, the practice of binding books in this most
intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world's most famous
libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life
the doctors, murderers, innocents, and indigents whose lives are sewn together
in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of
how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored
anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning
with the ethics of their custodianship.
A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good
Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages
conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark
Archives–captivating and macabre in all the right ways–she has crafted a
narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and
medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.
THE BUTCHERING ART:
Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing
Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly
A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian
"Warning: She spares no detail!" -Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake
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