A toxic green pigment was once used to color everything from fake flowers to book covers. Now a museum conservator is working to track down the noxious volumes. During the 19th century, emerald ...

Sometimes she’d handle the old book when she dusted or repainted ... but the idea that the toxic substance might be found in book cloth from the era “had sort of fallen out of the historical ...

Watch out, old book enthusiasts – your collection ... aka copper acetoarsenite, used to color cloth book bindings. Discovered in 1808 and first manufactured as a pigment in 1814, the toxic ...

It's part of an ongoing global effort to test cloth-bound books from the ... analytical survey of the 19th century books in the Beaman Library. “These old books with toxic dyes may be in ...

The project recently influenced the decision to remove two books from the French national library. The reason? Their vibrant green cloth covers raised suspicions of containing arsenic. This ...

Q: I would like to know how to dispose of a number of old college books. There used to be a book ... buckram, or other cloth, making them particularly difficult for our system.