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of her religion. Immediately after this hideous rituaI a youth disported
himself in the streets clad in her skin. See also p. 563.
16. Alfred Louis Auguste Franklin, Les anciens bibliothèques de
Paris; églises, monastères, collèges, etc. (Paris: Imprimerie impériale,
1867-1870; three volumes), l, 297, and Albert Cim[ochowski),
Le livre; historique-fabrication-achat-classement-usage- et
entretien (Paris: E. Flammarion, 1905-1908; Rve volumes), III,
296-297. Cim is the best available general account of anthropodermic
bibliopegy. But in spite of his prodigious store of information
on the subject, Cim was gullible enough to repeat the
impossible tale told him by the binder Georges Mercier (fils) that
it was an old tradition to preserve tanned skin of a de ad relative
for binding a favorite book. See his "Peau humaine tannée," Intermédiaire
des chercheurs et curieux, LXII (Aug. 20, 1910), 269-
271.
17. "Manuscrits sur peau humaine," Intermédiaire des chercheurs
et curieux, III (Jan. 10, 1866), 19.
18. The Life of the Icelander Jôn Olafsson, Traveller to India,
Written by Himself and Completed about 1661 A.D., with a Continuation
by Another Hand, up to His Death in 1679 (London:
The Rakluyt Society, 1923-1932; two volumes; translated from
the Icelandic edition of Sigfus Blondal by Bertha S. Philpotts),
II, 160-161.
19. A Practical Treatise on the Leather Industry (London:
Scott, Greenwood, 1901; translated by Frank T. Addyman), p. 1.
20. Paul Kersten, "Bucheinbande in Menschenleder," Die Heftlade,1
(1922-1924), 54.
21. "Les reliures en peau humaine." Chronique médicale, V
(1898), 137. Possibly identical with the skin in M. B. Gautier's
Musée anthropologique reported by Ulric (Desaix?), "Les tanneries
de peau humaine," Intermédiare des chercheurs et curieux, X (Nov.
10, 1877), 652.
22. R. c., "Ruman Skin Tanned," Notes and Queries, third
series, IX (Jan. 27, 1866), 89.
23. J. C. L. (of Malta), "Ruman Skin Tanned," Notes and
Queries, third series, IX (Apr. 14, 1866), 309.
24. L., "Ruman Skin Tanned," Notes and Queries, third series,
IX (Apr. 28, 1866), 359.
25. Rolbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania (New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932), p. 511, or II, 91, in the twovolume
edition.
26. F. A. Carrington, "Ruman Skin Tanned," Notes and
Queries, second series, II (Oct. Il, 1856), 2~9.