[Publib] Book mending tips you've probably never considered

[Nann Blaine Hilyard]

Discover magazine has a feature called "20 things you didn't know about
. . ."  The topic for February, 2007, is skin.
 
#19:  "The Cleveland Public Library, Harvard Law School, and Brown
University all have books clad in skin stripped from executed criminals
or from the poor."
#20:  "One such volume is Andreas Vesalius's pioneering 16th century
work of anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human
Body)."  
 
Imagine showing that as a highlight when the kindergarteners come for a
tour.   (Or a warning to those misbehaving middle-schoolers . . .)
 
Nann
@the library in Zion, Illinois
 
 
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