The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812, by James Blake Bailey from Curious Publications
Hardcover, 138 pages
As The Butte Daily Post said in 1897, this book is a “gruesome publication.” The Diary explores a unique vocation that thrived in the early nineteenth century: that of Resurrectionist. It was a job created out of a need for anatomy schools to acquire bodies for dissection during lectures. Fresh bodies. And those willing to dig them up were paid handsomely for their morbid efforts. William Burke and William Hare, who you’ll read about within these pages, killed sixteen people in Edinburgh in 1828 in
order to deliver the freshest bodies possible.
The reproduction of the original 1896 book maintains the spellings and treatment of the diary entries. While the subject matter is fascinating, it should be consumed
purely for your own education and curiosity. Curious Publications has no desire to see resurrectionism resurrected.
Curious Publications. Books for the unlike-minded.
If you’re reading this, you’ve already got something in common with us. Curiosity. For the weird and wonderful, the strange and unusual, the unexplained and unbelievable. We find it in new, original writing and give it a home. And we find it in old, oddly fantastic public domain books that have been lost to obscurity and give them new life.
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Hardcover, 138 pages
As The Butte Daily Post said in 1897, this book is a “gruesome publication.” The Diary explores a unique vocation that thrived in the early nineteenth century: that of Resurrectionist. It was a job created out of a need for anatomy schools to acquire bodies for dissection during lectures. Fresh bodies. And those willing to dig them up were paid handsomely for their morbid efforts. William Burke and William Hare, who you’ll read about within these pages, killed sixteen people in Edinburgh in 1828 in
order to deliver the freshest bodies possible.
The reproduction of the original 1896 book maintains the spellings and treatment of the diary entries. While the subject matter is fascinating, it should be consumed
purely for your own education and curiosity. Curious Publications has no desire to see resurrectionism resurrected.
Curious Publications. Books for the unlike-minded.
If you’re reading this, you’ve already got something in common with us. Curiosity. For the weird and wonderful, the strange and unusual, the unexplained and unbelievable. We find it in new, original writing and give it a home. And we find it in old, oddly fantastic public domain books that have been lost to obscurity and give them new life.
Please note: Shipping fee includes packaging and handling costs
5" x 0.32" x 8"
Hardcover, 138 pages
As The Butte Daily Post said in 1897, this book is a “gruesome publication.” The Diary explores a unique vocation that thrived in the early nineteenth century: that of Resurrectionist. It was a job created out of a need for anatomy schools to acquire bodies for dissection during lectures. Fresh bodies. And those willing to dig them up were paid handsomely for their morbid efforts. William Burke and William Hare, who you’ll read about within these pages, killed sixteen people in Edinburgh in 1828 in
order to deliver the freshest bodies possible.
The reproduction of the original 1896 book maintains the spellings and treatment of the diary entries. While the subject matter is fascinating, it should be consumed
purely for your own education and curiosity. Curious Publications has no desire to see resurrectionism resurrected.
Curious Publications. Books for the unlike-minded.
If you’re reading this, you’ve already got something in common with us. Curiosity. For the weird and wonderful, the strange and unusual, the unexplained and unbelievable. We find it in new, original writing and give it a home. And we find it in old, oddly fantastic public domain books that have been lost to obscurity and give them new life.
Please note: Shipping fee includes packaging and handling costs
5" x 0.32" x 8"