It was a real technique which, although frowned upon and considered ghastly by todays standards, was officially practiced since the 17th century.
The technique gained considerable popularity during the French Human skin. In April, we published a piece about a book from Harvard University s library that was bound not with regular leather, but human skin.
#Harvard university library books bound in human skin skin#
By Daniel Lovering CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A 17th century book owned by Harvard Law School, thought to have been bound in human skin because of an inscription that referred to a man "flayed alive," has been shown through scientific testing to have been bound in sheepskin. Binding books in human skin was not unheard of in the 19th century. Similar tests on books at the law school and medical school library found books bound in sheepskin. This is the only book at Harvard known to be bound in human skin. Ludovic Bouland (1839-1932), a noted medical doctor and Little is known about the second human skin-bound book in Harvards glorious halls but what we do know is that in Harvards Countway collection, a 1597 French translation of Ovids Metemorphoses includes this notation penciled on the inside cover: Bound in human skin. In the mid-1880s, Houssaye (1815-1896) presented his recent book, a meditation on the soul and life after death, to his friend Dr. Harvard University was reviewing its 15-million volume book collection when it came to a gruesome realisation.
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