That Harvard Book Bound In Human Flesh Isn’t Actually Bound In Human Flesh

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/04/03/harvard-book-made-of-human-skin/
But unfortunately for the Internet, as the story started to regain traction officials from the school fleshed out the details of what really wraps at least some of the literature in their collection, and discovered it’s not human skin after all—it’s actually sheepskin. “Baaaaaad news for fans of anthropodermic bibliopegy (binding books in human skin): Recent analyses of a book owned by the [Harvard Law School] Library, long believed but never proven to have been bound in human skin, have conclusively established that the book was bound in sheepskin,” according to a post on the Harvard Library Law School’s blog, dated April 3.

April 4, 2014 by Uncategorized 0

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