Sometimes she’d handle the old book when she dusted or repainted ... which aimed to identify books still in circulation that had been produced using toxic pigments common in Victorian bookbinding.

Old books can be beautiful to look at. But handle with care — they just might be toxic. The covers of Victorian-era books are already known to sometimes have pigments that contain toxic heavy ...

The pages were thick and rough to the touch. He could tell that the books were old — very old. “I look around, there’s nobody there and they are just lying on the ground,” Miller ...

Wonder how much the tariffs were on this? A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding light on a booming ...

Roca said that he dreamt up the concept after being fascinated by the smell of old books that you might find in a library, Italian culinary magazine Identità Golose reported. “We will have the ...

Student workers and full-time faculty are working to repair, rebind and renew old books in the BYU conservation laboratory. Repairs can be made by sewing new bindings on old pages, patching up ...

“To a true collector,” the German philosopher Walter Benjamin noted in his 1931 essay “Unpacking My Library,” “the acquisition of an old book ... press Transit Books, the science-fiction ...

Designer Matt Stevens’ new book, “Good Movies as Old Books: Films Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers,” features vintage-looking covers for imaginary book versions of his favorite films.