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

[Mark Arend]

'The Record" (Harvard Law School's independent newspaper) had an article
on this topic a year or so ago.  Go to
http://www.hlrecord.org/home/search/ <http://www.hlrecord.org/>   and
search for 'books bound in human skin'.
 
 
In My Life with Paper, master book designer Dard Hunter tells of being
hired by a young widow to bind a volume of letters dedicated to her late
husband.  The cover material?  His own skin. Hunter later learns that
the widow has remarried and wonders whether her second husband sees
himself as volume two. Hunter concludes, "Let us hope that this was
strictly a limited edition."
 
 
 


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	From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Nann Blaine Hilyard
	Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:11 PM
	To: publib at webjunction.org; ALA Council List
	Subject: [Publib] Book mending tips you've probably never
considered
	
	
	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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