Oxford: Tattoo Club of Great Britain, 1990. 8vo, 20 pp, [incl. covers], saddle-stapled wraps. A great issue of the tattoo periodical, which includes Paul Sayce on the Amsterdam convention, with some photographs, photos of work by Bebert France,photos of the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum, and more of the usual letters, reports..... More
Lyon: Bosc frères : M. et L. Riou, 1933. First edition. 8vo, 229 [2] pp, printed wraps. Text in French. This expansive work on tattoos grew out of De Tromelin's doctoral thesis, in which he studied 788 subjects and 4,142 tattoos, making classifcations between ethnic, professional, and allegorical tattoos. The..... More
Basel: Benno Schwabe, 1922. First edition. 8vo, 88 pages, printed wraps. Illustrated with 44 photographs and drawings on 16 plates. Text in German. First edition of this important early standalone survey on the history of tattooing worldwide. Many of the illustrations are taken from earlier works, such as Joest, but..... More