A hollow book used as secret poison cabinet, Historism, 17th century style With original, finely embossed parchment cover. Intact book clasps, the pages glued to a solid piece with a central rectangular cavity. The inside finely worked, providing eleven drawers of various sizes and one open compartment. The front of the drawers covered with coloured paper and fitted with flame-carved frames, the knobs of silver and ebonised wood. Handwritten paper labels with the Latin names of different poisonous plants (among them castor-oil plant, thorn apple, deadly nightsh,

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Keywords: 17th, book, books, cabinet, century, clipping, clippings, craft, cut, cut-, cut-outs, handcraft, handicrafts, historism, hollow, literature, object, objects, people, poison, secret, stills