Bitten By Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home by Lucinda Hawksley

Bitten By Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home

Lucinda Hawksley

256 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction art historical history informative slow-paced
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‘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 o...

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