Bound in Human Skin, 1902

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Logansport Journal, Indiana16 October 1902

Bound in Human Skin

Grewsome Fad of Some Paris Book Collectors.

The latest fashion in bookbinding among certain eccentric bibliophiles is that of using human skin.

The fad has become fashionable since Camile Flammarion had a choice volume bound with the fair skin from the beautiful shoulders of one who admired him when she was alive.

Among the collection of Dutint are twelve rare books bound in human skin, and these will soon be exhibited in the Petit Palais. Bookbinders object to what they consider the ghoulish trade of using human leather.Â It is easy enough to obtain the skin from the bodies of the waifs and strays of society, and in order to carry out their somewhat grewsome idea, physicians who are its chief devotees, are frequently compelled to tan the skin they intend to use.

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