The John Hay Library has four anthropodermic books. Testing in April 2015, confirmed the books are bound in human skin (or a closely related primate): Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Venice, 1568) Dance of Death (London, 1816) Dance of Death (New York, 1898) Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (Chicago, 1891) The bindings of three of the Hay’s books are discussed and photographed in Ebstein and Dickey, The Morbid Anatomy Anthology (Brooklyn, 2014, pp. 380-393). For additional background on the practice of anthropodermic bibliopegy, see Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020). These volumes are considered human remains and physical access to them is restricted. These digital surrogates have been created to allow access to the materials.
