Prolonged exposure to multiple green books can cause low level arsenic poisoning. Long-term exposure can cause changes to the skin, harm to the liver and kidneys and a reduction in red and white blood ...

The Poison Book Project examines antique books for heavy metal pigments — including mercury, lead and arsenic — commonly used in Victorian bookbinding.

Tedone puts the Victorian-era emerald green books in the rare book cage at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in ...

The Poison Book Project is working to identify old books that contain toxic pigments like arsenic, which made Victorian-era books in the 1800s more eye-catching. Melissa Tedone is leading the project.

Prolonged exposure to multiple volumes in a certain colour can be a health hazard - and there is an interesting explanation ...

Scientists say literature over a 100 years old contains toxic dyes that can be harmful to people's health. The post Why old ...

Libraries all over the world have poisonous books that contain materials such as copper, arsenic, mercury, and chrome.

The French National Library's affected books included the two-volume Ballads of Ireland by Edward Hayes (1855), an anthology of translated Romanian poetry (1856), and the Royal Horticultural ...

Handle Victorian-era cloth-bound books with caution, as their vibrant dyes may pose health risks, recent research reveals (1 Trusted Source Multimodal detection of toxic metals in Victorian era ...

Guests can check out A First Thursday Celebration: The Victorian Roots o f the Weird at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at Lilly Library. This will be another free admission and pop-up exhibition where people can ...

Following these discoveries, the Lipscomb Library packed all the brightly colored books from the 19th century that had not yet been tested into plastic bags. The books that were found to contain ...

How these beautiful Victorian books can cause liver damage and skin problems Prolonged exposure to multiple volumes in a certain colour can be a health hazard - and there is an interesting explanation ...