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Episode Source Material:

Anthropodermic Books: 

• The Anthropodermic Book Project – A research project to identify the world's books bound in human skin
• Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
• The macabre world of books bound in human skin
• Anthropodermic Bibliopegy – A Flay on Words – Odd Things Considered
• Tanneries of human skin? Meudon
• Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: Books Bound in Human Skin
• 'Dark Archives' Explores The Use Of Human Skin In Bookbinding
• Seeking the Truth Behind Books Bound in Human Skin
• The Hide That Binds | by Mike Jay
• Books Bound in Human Skin Aren't Fiction and a UCLA Librarian Has the Story
• Books Bound in Human Skin – The Practice Isn’t As Rare As You Might Think!
• A Book by Its Cover | Lapham's Quarterly
• Science Confirms: Yup, This Book Really Is Bound in Human Skin
• The Skin She Lived In: Anthropodermic Books in the Historical Medical Library
• In a literal bind
• Hay Library's Special Collections offer more than a human skin-bound book
• Anthropodermic bibliopegy

Hans Holbein:

• Hans Holbein's Dance of Death (1523–5) – The Public Domain Review
• Hans Holbein: Dance of Death
• Danse Macabre

Andreas Vesalius:

• From the library's historical treasures < Yale School of Medicine
• L'Histoire de la reliure de Josse Schavye
• The self-publicist whose medical text books caused a stir
• Public Dissection Was a Gruesome Spectacle
• (PDF) Stolen and lost copies of Vesalius's Fabrica

M. Adolphe Belot:

• Mademoiselle Giraud, my wife
• Mademoiselle Giraud, Ma femme, and: Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (review)
• In the Flesh? Anthropodermic Bibliopegy Verification and Its Implications  

Burke and Hare:

• The Worlds of Burke and Hare

James Allen

• Narrative of the life of James Allen : alias George Walton, alias Jonas Pierce, alias James H. York, alias Burley Grove, the highwayman : being his death-bed confession, to the warden of the Massachusetts State Prison. - Rare Books -

History of Anatomy

• The study of anatomy in England from 1700 to the early 20th century
• History of anatomy
• History of medicine in France
• Human cadaveric dissection: a historical account from ancient Greece to the modern era
• Murder Act 1751