Bound in Human Skin - The Dance of Death (Maggs Bros - Catalogue 338, 1915)

Extract from a 1915 maggs bros catalogue - a copy of holbein's dance of death, bound in human skin. See anthropodermic bibliopegy 307 bound in human skin. The dance of death. From the original designs of hans holbein. Illustrated with thirty-three colored plates by w. Hollar. With descriptions in english and french. 8vo. London, 1816. Unique copy, being actually bound in human skin. In centre of front cover is a design of a skull, modelled in leather and with teeth of ivory, vellum doublures and fly leaves, gauffered and painted edges (preserved in a levant morocco case). £52 10s this extra-ordinary specimen of bookbinding forms a fitting cover to the book itself — the dance of death — being a series of coloured plates showing death seizing all sorts and conditions of people. Date: 1915.