Noise #169: The Poison Book Project
Antique books are gorgeous and sometimes also toxic.
Amidst the hailstorm of political news these last few weeks, a completely unrelated story caught my eye: The Poison Book Project.
The Washington Post talks about beautiful old books—like a vividly colored copy of Walter Scott’s 1815 narrative poem The Lord of the Isles—that contain significant amounts of mercury, lead, arsenic, and chromium.
The heavy met…
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