I Will Not Be Touching This Disgusting Book In the Foreseeable Future
One of Harvard Library’s books, Des destinées de l’ame, is 99.9% certain to have been bound in human skin. It has been sitting in Harvard’s Houghton Library since the 1930s. The practice of binding books in human skin was not at all uncommon in the 15th century and was done to commemorate the dead,... Sign in to see full entry.