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Harvard removes human skin from the binding of 19th-century book
Now — 10 years after scientists at Harvard confirmed that the 19th-century French book about the destiny of the human soul is bound in human skin — the original binding has been removed.
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Human Skin Removed from Harvard Book as University Apologizes for 'Past Failures'
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 ...
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Books Bound in Human Skin Aren't Fiction and a UCLA Librarian Has the Whole Story
"Anthropodermic" books ... In 2014, Harvard’s Houghton Library made news when the library announced that it possessed Arsene Houssaye’s Destinies of the Soul bound in human skin.The French ...