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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 have been confirmed as human and 13 have been demonstrated to be non-human leather instead. [1] [2]
If the original binding is too deteriorated, the book may be rebound with new archival safe materials. [62] Whole leaves or sheets of weak or brittle paper are reinforced by backing each sheet with another sheet of paper. Japanese paper is sometimes used as a backing, adhered with a starch paste. [63] A book conservator examining pages of a ...
Textbooks written in Pashto distributed to Afghan school children. A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions, but also of learners (who could be independent learners ...
The back page can then be turned back to its correct position, thus hiding the spine of the book. Comb binding uses a 9/16" pitch rectangular hole pattern punched near the bound edge. A curled plastic "comb" is fed through the slits to hold the sheets together. Comb binding allows a book to be disassembled and reassembled by hand without damage.
The original category is as it says: the book was originally bound with the idea that it would be used in a library setting where the book would receive harder use than those usual trade editions sold to the public. The aftermarket library binding is the method of binding serials, and re-binding paperback or hardcover books, for use within ...
A copy of De integritatis et corruptionis virginum notis kept in the Wellcome Library, believed to be bound in human skin Anthropodermic bibliopegy —the binding of books in human skin—peaked in the 19th century. The practice was most popular amongst doctors, who had access to cadavers in their profession. It was nonetheless a rare phenomenon even at the peak of its popularity, and ...
Endpapers of the original run of books in the Everyman's Library, 1906, based on the art of William Morris's Kelmscott Press. The endpapers or end-papers of a book (also known as the endsheets ) are the pages that consist of a double-size sheet folded, with one half pasted against an inside cover (the pastedown), and the other serving as the ...
In biochemistry and molecular biology, a binding site is a region on a macromolecule such as a protein that binds to another molecule with specificity. [1] The binding partner of the macromolecule is often referred to as a ligand . [ 2 ]