Word: bounds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...collection includes,” the article continues, “a volume bound in human skin.” But, according to the article, the “removal of 20 square inches of skin from his back failed to impair the health of its donor, who is still alive and in the best of condition...
...addition to his role as the University’s chief librarian, says that “Harvard Library has been around for 350 years,” and his “guess is that at no point in its history did Harvard go out to collect books bound in human skin...
Harvard is not alone in its human holdings. Brown University’s John Hay Library contains three books bound in human skin, and the Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania, reports that Penn’s medical school turned out a handful of human-skin tanners and binders in the late 19th century...
...alias George Walton,” is a memoir whose author lives on inside as well as on the book’s covers. Walton was impressed by the courage of a man whom he once attacked, and when Walton was facing execution, he asked to have his memoir bound in his own skin and presented to the brave...
...Professor of History Ann Blair, who teaches History 1318, “History of the Book and Reading,” says she does not think the University should actively seek more human skin-bound books...