The volume's first owner, French physician and bibliophile Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839–1933), bound the book with skin he took without consent.
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In “Dark Archives,” librarian Megan Rosenbloom explores a dark history of bookbinding hiding in broad daylight.
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Arsène Houssaye's 'Des destinées de l'ame' is believed to have been bound in the skin of a female mental patient who died of a stroke.
127 months ago

Arsène Houssaye's "Des destinées de l'âme" was published in 1879, however, the volume in question was bound in human skin by French...
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The book, from the mid-1880s, was reportedly bound with the skin from the body of a female patient.
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Harvard's rare-book library reported Wednesday that a 19th-century volume about the soul and an afterlife is indeed bound in human flesh.
127 months ago

Houghton Library, Harvard's rare-book repository, confirmed one of its books was bound in human skin on Wednesday.
127 months ago

The book contains a handwritten note by its first owner saying, "a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering."
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In the late 19th century, a French physician took the skin, without consent, from a female psychiatric patient who had died.
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The book, bound in human flesh and housed in Houghton Library for almost a century, was so popular that it had inspired hazing rituals at...
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