Table 7.
Analyte masses (ng cm-2) trapped on books held at Glasgow University Archives
| Date of book sampled | Toluene | Furfural | Benzaldehyde | ethylhexanol | Nonanal | Decanal | Thymol |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cm. 1.5: Rome, 1470. |
3.8 |
< 0.01 |
0.20 |
0.72 |
0.55 |
2.4 |
< 0.01 |
| Bx. 3.25: incunables with washed out annotations; 1471 |
1.8 |
0.20 |
0.42 |
1.1 |
1.7 |
1.4 |
1.5 |
| SM1984&BD9-d.13: 2 similar bindings; 1481 |
6.1 |
0.34 |
0.49 |
2.6 |
1.5 |
1.1 |
< 0.01 |
| Poliziano, Angelo,. 1498. |
6.3 |
0.36 |
0.51 |
0.97 |
5.4 |
0.70 |
< 0.01 |
| Book covers from 1498. |
3.8 |
0.42 |
0.39 |
0.67 |
0.97 |
0.33 |
< 0.01 |
| Bv. 2.31: The chronicles of England, 1480 |
< 0.01 |
< 0.01 |
< 0.01 |
< 0.01 |
< 0.01 |
< 0.01 |
1440 |
| 17th c work and pasteboard type binding; Leipzig, 1694. |
7.4 |
0.44 |
0.58 |
2.8 |
1.9 |
1.5 |
0.51 |
| Aq-e 23: 18th c work on browing paper; London 1721. |
4.0 |
0.37 |
0.39 |
1.3 |
0.66 |
1.2 |
1.6 |
| RB 4765: 18th c pamphlet; 1739-1767 |
1.5 |
0.22 |
1.0 |
1.5 |
1.2 |
3.3 |
< 0.01 |
| Z2-d.6: 19th c work; 1835. |
3.7 |
0.55 |
0.36 |
1.7 |
3.5 |
1.4 |
< 0.01 |
| RQ:3071: 19th c book and binding: 1810,1811 |
3.4 |
0.45 |
0.33 |
1.8 |
3.0 |
1.3 |
< 0.01 |
| RQ 3052: 29 19th c pamphlets in modern cloth binding. |
3.6 |
1.6 |
0.47 |
2.3 |
4.8 |
3.0 |
< 0.01 |
| Early / mid 19th c loose letters (incoming and copy letters) |
2.8 |
0.37 |
0.31 |
1.3 |
0.92 |
0.90 |
< 0.01 |
| Late 19th c letterbook: |
8.4 |
3.5 |
0.30 |
1.0 |
1.6 |
0.84 |
< 0.01 |
| 1940s loose papers (mainly typed duplicates): |
6.6 |
0.73 |
0.35 |
1.5 |
2.4 |
1.1 |
< 0.01 |
| 1950 photostats in volume: MS Farmer 702 |
8.7 |
0.15 |
0.16 |
1.32 |
1.7 |
0.47 |
< 0.01 |
| Trotsy periodicals:acidified newspaper from 1946 (US). |
0.57 |
< 0.01 |
< 0.01 |
< 0.01 |
< 0.01 |
0.73 |
< 0.01 |
| Modern binding in a box 19th c. |
4.0 |
0.72 |
0.86 |
2.4 |
2.4 |
1.4 |
< 0.01 |
| Late 20th c ms notes/offprints: MS Hobsbaum (Ben Johnson) | 2.9 | 0.85 | 0.83 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 1.0 | < 0.01 |