Comment on "Bookfind of the century" sells for $2.23MparentComments−WillAdams2yApparently, for a time, it was in vogue for medical students to have a medical text rebound in the skin of their human cadaver from their autopsy class.−OJFord2yI'm not sure widespread that particular tradition might have been, but if anyone's interested in the practice in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropodermic_bibliopegy
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Apparently, for a time, it was in vogue for medical students to have a medical text rebound in the skin of their human cadaver from their autopsy class.
I'm not sure widespread that particular tradition might have been, but if anyone's interested in the practice in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropodermic_bibliopegy