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 | 12/4/2023 || 1060782216 || The life of Alexander the Great. || Religious Tract Society || London: The Religious Tract Society || c. 1846 || 1 || University of St Andrews || VIS-NIR spectroscopy, Raman, SEM-EDS || Cover paper
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-| 12/4/2023 || 27212618 || The May Queen. || Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson; Hartly, W.H. (illust.) || London: Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen; 6 Gate St., Lincoln's Inn Fields // Bound by Leighton Son and Hodge || 1861 || 1 || University of St Andrews || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
+| 12/4/2023 || 27212618 || The May Queen. || Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson; Hartly, W.H. (illust.) || London: Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen; 6 Gate St., Lincoln's Inn Fields // Bound by Leighton Son and Hodge || 1861 || 1 || National Library of Scotland || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
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-| 12/4/2023 || 561186576 || Flowers in their season: A floral record of the months. || Jerrard, Paul (litho.) || London: Paul Jerrard; 111 Fleet St. || [1854] || 1 || University of St Andrews || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
+| 12/4/2023 || 561186576 || Flowers in their season: A floral record of the months. || Jerrard, Paul (litho.) || London: Paul Jerrard; 111 Fleet St. || [1854] || 1 || National Library of Scotland || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
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-| 12/4/2023 || 79416954 || Poetry of the year. Passages from the poets descriptive of the seasons. With ... illustrations, etc. ||  || London: George Bell;186 Fleet St., Printed by G. Barclay; Castle St., Leicester Sq. || 1853 || 1 || University of St Andrews || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
+| 12/4/2023 || 79416954 || Poetry of the year. Passages from the poets descriptive of the seasons. With ... illustrations, etc. ||  || London: George Bell;186 Fleet St., Printed by G. Barclay; Castle St., Leicester Sq. || 1853 || 1 || National Library of Scotland || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
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-| 12/4/2023 || 8917631 || Sakoontalá or the lost ring / translated into English prose and verse ... by Monier Williams, M.A. || Kālidāsa; William, Monier (trans.) || Hertford: Printed and published by Stephen Austin || 1855 || 1 || University of St Andrews || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
+| 12/4/2023 || 8917631 || Sakoontalá or the lost ring / translated into English prose and verse ... by Monier Williams, M.A. || Kālidāsa; William, Monier (trans.) || Hertford: Printed and published by Stephen Austin || 1855 || 1 || National Library of Scotland || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
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-| 12/4/2023 || 57297065 || Rouman anthology; or, Selections of Rouman poetry, ancient and modern ... || Stanley, Henry Edward John || Hertford: Printed and published by Stephen Austin || 1856 || 1 || University of St Andrews || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
+| 12/4/2023 || 57297065 || Rouman anthology; or, Selections of Rouman poetry, ancient and modern ... || Stanley, Henry Edward John || Hertford: Printed and published by Stephen Austin || 1856 || 1 || National Library of Scotland || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
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-| 12/4/2023 || 976541423 || The task, a poem / illustrated by Birket Foster. || Cowper, William; Foster, Birket (illust.) || London: James Nisbet and Co.; Berners Street // Bound by Edmonds & Remmants || 1855 || 1 || University of St Andrews || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
+| 12/4/2023 || 976541423 || The task, a poem / illustrated by Birket Foster. || Cowper, William; Foster, Birket (illust.) || London: James Nisbet and Co.; Berners Street // Bound by Edmonds & Remmants || 1855 || 1 || National Library of Scotland || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Bookcloth
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-| 12/4/2023 || 794272782 || The child's picture and verse book, commonly called Otto Speckter's fable book; with the original German, and with French / translated into English by Mary Howitt. || Hey, Wilhelm; Howitt, Mary (trans.) || London: Logman, Brown, Green, and Logmans // Printed by Manning and Mason; Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row // Bound by Westleys & Clark || 1844 || 1 || University of St Andrews || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Cover paper
+| 12/4/2023 || 794272782 || The child's picture and verse book, commonly called Otto Speckter's fable book; with the original German, and with French / translated into English by Mary Howitt. || Hey, Wilhelm; Howitt, Mary (trans.) || London: Logman, Brown, Green, and Logmans // Printed by Manning and Mason; Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row // Bound by Westleys & Clark || 1844 || 1 || National Library of Scotland || VIS-NIR spectroscopy || Cover paper
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−	In the 19th century, not every book from the same edition would have been bound identically. Therefore, it is possible to have a book of the same edition listed below, but which does not contain an emerald green component. We provide this table of arsenical, mass-produced bookbindings as a starting point from which other institutions and private collectors may consider their own collections. This table includes information collected from bookmark recipients about possible emerald green cloth bindings, as well as more conclusive identification by Winterthur and other contributing institutions using instrumental analysis. Please read this note about the use of vis-NIR for analysis. To contribute data to the project, please read [[How To Submit Data to the Poison Book Project]].	+	In the 19th century, not every book from the same edition would have been bound identically. Therefore, it is possible to have a book of the same edition listed below, but which does not contain an emerald green component. We provide this table of arsenical, mass-produced bookbindings as a starting point from which other institutions and private collectors may consider their own collections. This table includes information collected from bookmark recipients about possible emerald green cloth bindings, as well as more conclusive identification by Winterthur and other contributing institutions using instrumental analysis. [http://wiki.winterthur.org/wiki/Poison_Book_Project#Arsenical_Books_Database Please read this note about the use of vis-NIR for analysis.] To contribute data to the project, please read [[How To Submit Data to the Poison Book Project]].

	*Exception: The first two volumes of the series ''Caroli a Linne Species Plantarum'' (1797 and 1799) also appear on this list, along with the ensuing four volumes that were published during the early 19th century. All of these volumes were found by Queen's University Library to have emerald green decoration on their textblock edges.		*Exception: The first two volumes of the series ''Caroli a Linne Species Plantarum'' (1797 and 1799) also appear on this list, along with the ensuing four volumes that were published during the early 19th century. All of these volumes were found by Queen's University Library to have emerald green decoration on their textblock edges.

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-In the 19th century, not every book from the same edition would have been bound identically. Therefore, it is possible to have a book of the same edition listed below, but which does not contain an emerald green component. We provide this table of arsenical, mass-produced bookbindings as a starting point from which other institutions and private collectors may consider their own collections. This table includes information collected from bookmark recipients about possible emerald green cloth bindings, as well as more conclusive identification by Winterthur and other contributing institutions using instrumental analysis. To contribute data to the project, please read [[How To Submit Data to the Poison Book Project]].
+In the 19th century, not every book from the same edition would have been bound identically. Therefore, it is possible to have a book of the same edition listed below, but which does not contain an emerald green component. We provide this table of arsenical, mass-produced bookbindings as a starting point from which other institutions and private collectors may consider their own collections. This table includes information collected from bookmark recipients about possible emerald green cloth bindings, as well as more conclusive identification by Winterthur and other contributing institutions using instrumental analysis. Please read this note about the use of vis-NIR for analysis. To contribute data to the project, please read [[How To Submit Data to the Poison Book Project]].
   *Exception: The first two volumes of the series ''Caroli a Linne Species Plantarum'' (1797 and 1799) also appear on this list, along with the ensuing four volumes that were published during the early 19th century. All of these volumes were found by Queen's University Library to have emerald green decoration on their textblock edges.
-<B>This table was last updated on September 25, 2023.</B> Total number of emerald green bindings identified to date: <B>161</B>.
+<B>This table was last updated on December 4, 2023.</B> Total number of emerald green bindings identified to date: <B>245</B> (unique imprints: 221).
 * To receive this table as .csv file, please contact mtedone[at]udel[dot]edu.
 * This table can be searched using CTRL-F.

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 In the 19th century, not every book from the same edition would have been bound identically. Therefore, it is possible to have a book of the same edition listed below, but which does not contain an emerald green component. We provide this table of arsenical, mass-produced bookbindings as a starting point from which other institutions and private collectors may consider their own collections. This table includes information collected from bookmark recipients about possible emerald green cloth bindings, as well as more conclusive identification by Winterthur and other contributing institutions using instrumental analysis. To contribute data to the project, please read [[How To Submit Data to the Poison Book Project]].
-*Exception: The first two volumes of the series ''Caroli a Linne Species Plantarum'' (1797 and 1799) also appear on this list, along with the ensuing four volumes that were published during the early 19th century. All of these volumes were found by Queen's University Library to have emerald green decoration on their textblock edges.
+ *Exception: The first two volumes of the series ''Caroli a Linne Species Plantarum'' (1797 and 1799) also appear on this list, along with the ensuing four volumes that were published during the early 19th century. All of these volumes were found by Queen's University Library to have emerald green decoration on their textblock edges.
 <B>This table was last updated on September 25, 2023.</B> Total number of emerald green bindings identified to date: <B>161</B>.

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-This growing list of known arsenical green bookbindings was initially based on emerald green, cloth-bound books discovered by the [[Poison Book Project]]; however, as contributing institutions have discovered emerald green paper and leather bindings, as well, we have expanded the scope of the list to include any mass-produced, 19th-century bookbinding that contains arsenical emerald green pigment. Please note that, while the use of potentially toxic artist pigments in book illustrations is well known, this database does not list illustrations within the textblock. This list tracks the use of heavy metal pigments in the ''binding'' specifically.
+This growing list of known arsenical green bookbindings was initially based on emerald green, cloth-bound books discovered by the [[Poison Book Project]]; however, as contributing institutions have discovered emerald green paper and leather bindings, as well, we have expanded the scope of the list to include any mass-produced, 19th-century* bookbinding that contains arsenical emerald green pigment. Please note that, while the use of potentially toxic artist pigments in book illustrations is well known, this database does not list illustrations within the textblock. This list tracks the use of heavy metal pigments in the ''binding'' specifically.
 In the 19th century, not every book from the same edition would have been bound identically. Therefore, it is possible to have a book of the same edition listed below, but which does not contain an emerald green component. We provide this table of arsenical, mass-produced bookbindings as a starting point from which other institutions and private collectors may consider their own collections. This table includes information collected from bookmark recipients about possible emerald green cloth bindings, as well as more conclusive identification by Winterthur and other contributing institutions using instrumental analysis. To contribute data to the project, please read [[How To Submit Data to the Poison Book Project]].
+*Exception: The first two volumes of the series ''Caroli a Linne Species Plantarum'' (1797 and 1799) also appear on this list, along with the ensuing four volumes that were published during the early 19th century. All of these volumes were found by Queen's University Library to have emerald green decoration on their textblock edges.
 <B>This table was last updated on September 25, 2023.</B> Total number of emerald green bindings identified to date: <B>161</B>.

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−	This growing list of known arsenical green bookbindings was initially based on emerald green, cloth-bound books discovered by the [[Poison Book Project]]; however, as contributing institutions have discovered emerald green paper and leather bindings, as well, we have expanded the scope of the list to include any mass-produced, 19th-century bookbinding that contains arsenical emerald green pigment. Please note that, while the use of potentially toxic artist pigments in book illustrations is well known, this database does not ~~include~~ illustrations within the textblock. This list tracks the use of heavy metal pigments in the ''binding'' specifically.	+	This growing list of known arsenical green bookbindings was initially based on emerald green, cloth-bound books discovered by the [[Poison Book Project]]; however, as contributing institutions have discovered emerald green paper and leather bindings, as well, we have expanded the scope of the list to include any mass-produced, 19th-century bookbinding that contains arsenical emerald green pigment. Please note that, while the use of potentially toxic artist pigments in book illustrations is well known, this database does not list illustrations within the textblock. This list tracks the use of heavy metal pigments in the ''binding'' specifically.

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−	This growing list of known arsenical green bookbindings was initially based on emerald green, cloth-bound books discovered by the [[Poison Book Project]]; however, as contributing institutions have discovered emerald green paper and leather bindings, as well, we have expanded the scope of the list to include any mass-produced, 19th-century bookbinding that contains arsenical emerald green pigment.	+	This growing list of known arsenical green bookbindings was initially based on emerald green, cloth-bound books discovered by the [[Poison Book Project]]; however, as contributing institutions have discovered emerald green paper and leather bindings, as well, we have expanded the scope of the list to include any mass-produced, 19th-century bookbinding that contains arsenical emerald green pigment. Please note that, while the use of potentially toxic artist pigments in book illustrations is well known, this database does not include illustrations within the textblock. This list tracks the use of heavy metal pigments in the ''binding'' specifically.