An unreliable history of tattoos / Paul Thomas
2016, First Edition. London : Nobrow. Fine cloth copy in the original colour printed boards. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Item #273830
Physical description; 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 20 x 26 cm. Summary; The tattoo is an art form, a practice . . . for some, a ritual. Its history is long and colorful, dating back to the Neolithic, when our ancestors marked their bodies with symbolic lines derived from a carbon paste. Today, those same markings can be made on entering the neon parlors that line our cities. Maybe it's time to stop taking them so seriously. Subjects; Tattooing — History — Humor. Comic strip fiction / graphic novels.
Price: €9.95