Protestantism for the Youth : Stories of the Reformation in Germany and England for Young People (1870s) [Arsenical binding, XRF tested]]

JOHNS, B. G. Stories of the Reformation in Germany and England for Young People. Thirteenth Edition. London: Jarrold and Sons [ca. 1868].

(115 x 170 mm) pp. xiii, 219, + 4 p. publisher’s ads. Half title. Full colour frontispiece, 1 full woodcut illustration. Green publisher’s cloth binding with stamping and gilt decoration and title. Gilt foregoes. “A reward for General Good Conduct Master Boreham 92 Cornwall Road June 12^th 1870.”

XRF tested (07/26) evidence of arsenical compound in binding -- see graph. 

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