Getty Harvard University announced Wednesday that it had removed human skin from the binding of Des destinées de l'âme, a book from Houghton Library, after a review found the book failed to meet ...
"Anthropodermic" books might sound like the stuff of horror movies, but Megan Rosenbloom researched their very real history for the new book 'Dark Archives' In 2014, Harvard’s Houghton Library ...
A university has said it has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century book about the afterlife that has been in its collections since the 1930s. The decision came after a review found ...