Orpiment on Seventeenth-Century Blue-Coloured Textblock Edges
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DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2025.2450977
Abstract: ABSTRACT Orpiment (arsenic trisulfide) was identified on blue textblock edges of six books with imprints dating between 1647–1712 from cities in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. This is theorized to be evidence of originally green… read more here.
Keywords: textblock edges; century blue; blue coloured; textblock ... See more keywords