Those include lead, chromium, mercury — and especially arsenic, often used in books with dazzling green covers. “Huh,” Mentock thought, staring at a photo of one of the toxic green books in ...

Some of the binderies that did produce these emerald-green books were producing thousands of book bindings a week. INSKEEP: Wow. So what about toxic books that may be in libraries or even ...

This emerald-green pigment was used in Victorian-era wallpaper, garments and—as Winterthur found out—in cloth book covers. This discovery led to the launch of the Poison Book Project ...

So, exactly how dangerous are these poisonous books? “For skin exposure to cause problems, you would probably need to handle ...

The Poison Book Project is ongoing ... in chrome yellow dyed book covers are still bound to the cloth. The emerald green pigment, on the other hand, is highly "friable," meaning that the particles ...

Those include lead, chromium, mercury — and especially arsenic, often used in books with dazzling green covers. “Huh,” Mentock thought, staring at a photo of one of the toxic green books in ...