Harvard Library announced that it has removed human skin that was used to bind a book from the 1880s. The copy of Arsène Houssaye’s "Des destinées de l’âme" was found in the Houghton Library and has ...

WILTON — Clay tablets, papyrus rolls, and illuminated manuscripts eventually gave way to the printing press for producing books. Yet through the years, not that much has changed in the basics of how ...

Fine. Book binding would only be a great stress reliever if you were as good at book binding as Armando Costa and Florindo Simões are but then if you were, you’d be a professional book binder and it ...

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Harvard University announced Wednesday that it removed the human skin binding from a gruesome book in its library. The book, called Des destinées de l’âme, was published in the 1880s by French author ...

A book bound in human skin has been stripped by Harvard University's Houghton Library following a review prompted by the recommendations put forward in 2022 regarding human remains in museum ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the mid-16th century, a bookbinder picked up a piece of parchment — one that was already ...

Print-on-demand, the technology that lets you print and bind a paperback book in a matter of minutes with nary a press in sight, hasn't exactly lived up to its promise of revolutionising publishing.