But librarians have long known the book’s binding was made of human skin. This fact was confirmed by a 2014 analysis using peptide mass fingerprinting, which identifies the proteins in a skin ...

Getty Harvard University announced Wednesday that it had removed human skin from the binding of ... the library has made the book available to anyone who asked for it for any reason, according ...

"Anthropodermic" books might sound ... 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 novelist ...

But when book conservator Élodie Lévêque looked at them through a microscope, she was stumped. The primary covers were obviously made of sheepskin, but Lévêque struggled to identify the skin ...