The skin-bound version of "Des destinées de l’âme" was at Harvard since 1934. For nearly a century, the hallowed halls of Harvard University's Houghton Library had a book bound by human skin among the ...

For those in the audience who aren’t well versed in wrangling dead trees, a large press with a lot of clamping pressure can be used for binding books or printing. It can even be used to squeeze the ...