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Antiquarian Rare Bearly Read Books. The Poison Book Project has now identified 35 individual titles verified to contain arsenic all printed either in the UK or the US in the mid-nineteenth century.

Do You Have Toxic Bookcloth In Your Library Identifying Emerald Green

This revelation halted my treatment efforts and spurred us to create the Poison Book Project an investigation of potentially toxic pigments used to color Victorian-era bookcloth.

. Analysis of decorated cloth-case. The Poison Book Project. Due to a planned power outage on Friday 114 between 8am-1pm PST some services may be impacted.

320 Boston Post Road RT20. In spring 2019 Dr. These toxic books produced in the 19th century are bound in vivid cloth colored with a notorious pigment known as emerald green thats laced with arsenic.

Could there be a hidden hazard in your library collection. Conservators Find Arsenic on Old Books. In April 2022 the Preservation and Conservation PAC Laboratory welcomed Dr.

Everything changed in 2019 when Melissa Tedone the lab head for library materials conservation at the Winterthur Museum Garden Library in Delaware. In the Victorian era textiles were colored with a green copper aceto-arsentite used from 1814 to the late 1800s. The Winterthur Poison Book Project is an ongoing investigation initiated in April 2019 to identify potentially toxic pigments coloring Victorian-era bookcloth.

The Poison Book Project investigates arsenic and other toxic colorants found in mass-produced Victorian-era cloth-bound books and assists other institutio. Poison Book Project Winterthur Museum Garden Library Preliminary Results Interim Safety Protocols 250 books tested to date from one third of the circulating collection Tested. This green is sometimes referred to as.

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