CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (WKRC) - A university library has removed human flesh that was used to bind one of their older books after discovering its macabre history. In 2014, Harvard University's Houghton ...

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Book binding from the 19th century on a book shelf in Edgar Shannon Library on the Grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, on July 11. (Cal Cary/For the Washington Post) X ...

Harvard Library said it pulled the human skin binding from its copy of "Des destinées de l’âme," written by Arsène Houssaye in the 1880s.