Experts at Harvard have confirmed a 19th century book held in one of the prestigious university's libraries is bound in human skin.
A series of tests by scientists and conservators on Houghton Library’s copy of the French writer Arsene Houssaye's Des destinees de l'ame concluded with 99.9% certainty that the binding material "is of human origin".
According to the library, the novelist presented the volume, described as "a meditation on the soul and life after death", to one of his book-loving friends.
Dr Ludovic Bouland bound the book with skin taken from the back of an unclaimed body of a female mental patient who had died of a stroke, according to researchers.
Dr Bouland left a note in the volume explaining what he had done.
He wrote: "A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering." (read the full article)
I know publishers release books with limited edition covers but this is a biT much.
かわいくないですよ！
