The macabre binding of a 19th-century book will be removed from one of Harvard University's libraries.
Harvard University has removed the binding from a copy of the 19th-century book Des Destinées de l'Ame at one of its libraries after it was found in 2014 to be bound in the skin of a deceased woman . At the time, the university said that Dr Ludovic Bouland, the first owner of the book written by French author Arsène Houssaye, had taken skin from the body of a mentally ill woman who died of a heart attack.
Anthropodermic bibliopegy — the practice of binding books in human skin — was once a relatively common practice, Harvard said in a 2014 blog post . Harvard said on Thursday its stewardship practices related to the book had "failed to meet the level of ethical standards to which it subscribes".
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