Toxic bindings!

Has anyone encountered this?

Mid-19th century cloth bindings, coloured with the same arsenical green pigments as are regularly blamed for Napoleon's wallpaper-related demise.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/these-green-books-are-literal...

http://wiki.winterthur.org/wiki/ARSENICAL_BOOKS_DATABASE

I haven’t - but this was a very interesting article to read.

I'm currently dealing with a recent acquisition that smells like an ashtray... but next I will go check the shelves for toxic bindings. Thanks for this heads up!

>1 Andy_Dingley: Thanks for posting that here. I was aware of this problem from a post in another forum. I started to read the article, but was unable to finish due to a pop-up which required me to give my e-mail addy to continue reading. I get enough junk mail as it is, so I closed the page. Thank you, NatGeo!

I was able to read the entire article.

>5 MarthaJeanne: Interesting.

Could be a difference between USA and EU regulations.

>7 MarthaJeanne: There weren't any regulations back then on either continent.

This title database seems to have sparked a search for them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-63412913

Speaking of toxins and poisons, here is a garden that can help hasten one's demise ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tboW11dMeKs

>1 Andy_Dingley: hmm. Good reason to use mylar dust jackets I guess.