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Info on safety hazard of some cloth bindings covers of 19th century Victoria era literature. Melissa Tedone is an affiliated associate professor.

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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.

. Due to a planned power outage on Friday 114 between 8am-1pm PST some services may be impacted. 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 has now identified 35 individual titles verified to contain arsenic all printed either in the UK or the US in the mid-nineteenth century.

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. The Poison Book Project investigates arsenic and other toxic colorants found in mass-produced Victorian-era cloth-bound books and assists other institutio. The Poison Book Project is centered at Winterthur and uses resources from the UD Library Museum and Press collections.

Analysis of decorated cloth-case. 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. And if you ever visit Wintert.

This green is sometimes referred to as. Everything changed in 2019 when Melissa Tedone the lab head for library materials conservation at the Winterthur Museum Garden Library in Delaware. Stay safe my bookish people.

The Poison Book Project. In the Victorian era textiles were colored with a green copper aceto-arsentite used from 1814 to the late 1800s. Many of them are.

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