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  2. List of books bound in human skin - Wikipedia

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    The book is a catalogue of medical incunabula (early printed books of Europe). Rosenbloom described the work as "like a nineteenth-century library's equivalent of a phone directory" and expressed her surprise when the book was confirmed authentic, due to its tonal dissimilarity to other known anthropodermic books.

  3. Anthropodermic bibliopegy - Wikipedia

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    A book bound in the skin of the murderer William Burke, on display in Surgeons' Hall Museum in Edinburgh. Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. As of April 2022, The Anthropodermic Book Project has examined 31 out of 50 books [ 1] in public institutions supposed to have anthropodermic bindings, of which 18 ...

  4. Wasōbon - Wikipedia

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    Wasōbon. Wasōbon ( Japanese: 和装本, or wahon ( 和本) [ 1]) is a traditional book style in Japan that dates from the late eighth century AD with the printing of "Hyakumantō Darani" during the reign of Empress Shōtoku (764–770 AD). [ 2] Most of the books were hand-copied until the Edo period (1603–1867), when woodblock printing ...

  5. Bookbinding - Wikipedia

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    For new works, some publishers print unbound manuscripts which a binder can collate and bind, but often an existing commercially bound book is pulled, or taken apart, in order to be given a new binding. Once the text block of the book has been pulled, it can be rebound in almost any structure; a modern suspense novel, for instance, could be ...

  6. Traditional Chinese bookbinding - Wikipedia

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    Collection of Zhu Xi, printed in 1265. During the 9th and 10th centuries, bound scrolls were gradually replaced by a new book format known as "butterfly binding" (經摺裝, also see Orihon), from the late Tang period onward. [3] This change is tied to the rise of Buddhism and woodblock printing. The accordion-fold books were easier to handle ...

  7. Section (bookbinding) - Wikipedia

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    In bookbinding, a section, gathering, or signature is a group of sheets folded in half, to be worked into the binding as a unit. [1] Twelve gatherings can be seen in this spine-side view of a book being bound. The section is the basic building block of codex bindings. In Western bookbinding, sections are sewn through their folds, with the ...

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