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According to the former director of libraries at the University of Kentucky, Lawrence S. Thompson, the first reputed example of human-skin binding—anthropodermic bibliopegy??€”dates to a 13th century French Bible. Human-skin binding likely began in the late 16th or early 17th century, according to Thompson, who has written about the topic...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Skinny on Harvard’s Rare Book Collection | 2/2/2006 | See Source »

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