{"id":40629,"date":"2024-07-25T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T18:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40629"},"modified":"2024-07-25T13:08:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T18:08:53","slug":"word-of-the-day-974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/07\/25\/word-of-the-day-974\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bibliotoxicology<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Greater awareness has risen recently concerning the phenomenon of \u201cPoison Books\u201d: that is, books containing pigments composed of heavy metals that are known to be hazardous to human health. Mercury, lead, chromium and arsenic-based pigments are generally the elements known to be present in bindings-they\u2019re used to color the book-covering cloth, leather and\/or paper- chiefly within the 19th century (largely the 1840\u2019s-1860\u2019s), and most likely of European or American publishing origin. [“Bibliotoxicology<\/a>,” Doug Sanders<\/em>, IU Libraries<\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Old books can be loaded with poison. Some collectors love the thrill<\/em><\/a>.”, Ashley Stimpson, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Some book lovers will settle for just a glimpse of one. When Brooklyn booksellers\u00a0Honey & Wax<\/a> offered up a lot of nine arsenical books at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair in April, \u201clots of people just wanted a selfie with the books,\u201d owner Heather O\u2019Donnell wrote in an email.<\/p>\n

Staff had discovered the books in a recently consigned collection of 19th-century volumes \u201cand thought that marketing the poison books as such might be an effective way to raise awareness of bibliotoxicology,\u201d O\u2019Donnell says, \u201cand get the books out the door swiftly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The marketing paid off. All the arsenical books \u2014 which ranged in price from $150 to $450 \u2014 sold within 48 hours.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Arsenical<\/em> is fun, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bibliotoxicology: Greater awareness has risen recently concerning the phenomenon of \u201cPoison Books\u201d: that is, books containing pigments composed of heavy metals that are known to be hazardous to human health. Mercury, lead, chromium and arsenic-based pigments are generally the elements known to be present in bindings-they\u2019re used to color the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40630,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629\/revisions\/40630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}