Its telltale bright green bookcover led to it being tested for arsenic. (Hannah Beier / For The Washington Post) The Poison Book Project began after Melissa Tedone’s own chance encounter with a ...

LEILA FADEL, HOST: The Poison Book Project is working to identify ... Some of the binderies that did produce these emerald-green books were producing thousands of book bindings a week.

Tedone and Grayburn developed a protocol for testing other green books in the Winterthur library and created the Poison Book Project to document their progress. To date, they have tested approximately ...

This article first appeared in Issue 5 of our free digital magazine CURIOUS. Watch out, old book enthusiasts – your collection might be poisoned. Starting with just one suspicious green tome ...

you can compare it to the list of titles in the Poison Book Project database. But should you be worried? "I encourage anyone who may have an emerald green bookbinding in their collection—whether ...

The Poison Book Project suggests wearing nitrile gloves when handling books that may have been painted with emerald green and storing them in isolated polyethylene bags. Winterthur, Tedone said ...

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 ...

“You wouldn’t drink tile cleaner; don’t lick your green book.” Back in Wyoming, self-proclaimed “inveterate yard-saler” Mentock, who happily donated her very poison book to the Poison ...