Sometimes, the material the book is made out of, often leather and hide in older times, is more valuable than the content itself. But a long time ago, the art of book binding was a little more macabre.
‘Des Destinées de l'âme’ (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at the Houghton library at Harvard University, since the early nineteen hundreds. Written by a man named Arsene Houssaye in 1880, the book was apparently gifted to a friend of Arsene’s, a doctor named Ludovic Bouland.
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