"Harvard Library acknowledges past failures in its stewardship of the book that further objectified and compromised the dignity of the human being whose remains were used for its binding," Harvard ...

Utrecht University Library owns as many as about 900 books printed between 1450 and 1500, the first decades of printing in Europe. These so-called incunabula (books printed before 1501) will all be ...

On Wednesday, the Harvard Library announced it has removed the human binding "due to the ethically fraught nature of the book's origins and subsequent history." The book was bound using stolen ...