Although e-readers are convenient and you can download entire libraries to your tablet or smartphone, true bibliophiles can expound at length on the textile wonders of holding a real book in one’s ...

Harvard Library announced that it has removed human skin that was used to bind a book from the 1880s. The copy of Arsène Houssaye’s "Des destinées de l’âme" was found in the Houghton Library and has ...

A book bound in Corder's skin has been in the museum's collections since the 1930s. The second copy was given to the museum several decades ago. Moyse's Hall Museum A rediscovered copy of a book bound ...