The good news is that the Standard for Library Binding and formula for book cloth was changed around 1990, and in recent observations, no degradation of the coating on the book cloth has been noted ...

The vibrant pigments used in antique covers of books contained chromium, arsenic and lead, that can lead to health hazards ...

Binding a Book, the Old-Fashioned Way By JONATHAN WOLFE • March 9, 2017 On the Lower East Side of Manhattan, single volumes are trimmed and glued by hand as they have been in this tiny workshop ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (WKRC) - A university library has removed human flesh that was used to bind one of their older books after discovering its macabre history. In 2014, Harvard University's Houghton ...

Book binding from the 19th century on a book shelf in Edgar Shannon Library on the Grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, on July 11. (Cal Cary/For the Washington Post) X ...

Harvard Library said it pulled the human skin binding from its copy of "Des destinées de l’âme," written by Arsène Houssaye in the 1880s.

Stick your nose deep into an old book and inhale deeply. It contains, librarians say, “hints of grass and vanilla,” among other smells. ... binding, glue, and ink as they break down over time.

Every book lover’s dream is to own an antique book with a cloth binding the smell of history and of ancient times. And if the cloth-bound book comes straight out of the Victorian era, then it's ...