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Bitten By Witch Fever - Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home (Hardcover)
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Bitten By Witch Fever - Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home (Hardcover)
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Winner: Best Trade Illustrated Book, British Book Design &
Production Awards 2017 'As to the arsenic scare a greater folly it
is hardly possible to imagine: the doctors were bitten as people
were bitten by the witch fever.' - William Morris on toxic
wallpapers, 1885. Bitten by Witch Fever presents facsimile samples
of 275 of the most sumptuous wallpaper designs ever created by
designers and printers of the age, including Christopher Dresser
and Morris & Co. For the first time in their history, every one
of the samples shown has been laboratory tested and found to
contain arsenic. Interleaved with the wallpaper sections, evocative
commentary guides you through the incredible story of the
manufacture, uses and effects of arsenic, and presents the heated
public debate surrounding the use of deadly pigments in the sublime
wallpapers of a newly industrialized world. Chosen by Emma Roberts
and Karah Preiss for their Belletrist Book Club's Gift Guide.
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