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Harvard Library says it has removed a book that's been in its collection for nearly a century that is partially made with human skin that was taken from a deceased hospital patient without consent ...
Harvard University announced it would remove a binding made of the skin of a deceased woman from the 19th-century book “Des Destinées de l’Ame,” which they house in their library.
Harvard University removed a book binding made of human skin from a 19th century book in its libraries, citing ethical concerns and "past failures." ...
Harvard University recently made a decision to remove a book with human skin binding from its campus library. Out of a collection of 20 million books found at Houghton Library, Arsène Houssaye ...
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 ...
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Book bound in human skin found in museum office - MSNA book bound in the skin of one of the UK's most notorious murderers is to go on display after being found in a museum's office. The work is understood to be made using the skin of William Corder ...
Books bound in human skin — and the sometimes sensational stories surrounding them — have long occupied an odd place in the annals of the rare book world.
Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books with leather made from human skin. Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum just discovered a book bound with the skin of notorious killer ...
Harvard University says 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.
Harvard University announced Wednesday that it had removed "human skin" from the binding of Des destinées de l'âme from its Houghton Library when a review found the book failed to meet "ethical ...
For 90 years, a book about the soul after death was bound in human skin. Now, Harvard has removed the binding and apologized for its handling of the book.
Bowing to public pressure, Harvard University agreed Wednesday to remove binding made of human skin from a 19th century book held by one of its libraries. The New York Times reports that the Ivy ...
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