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HAMBLY, W.D. The History of Tattooing and its Significance With Some Account of Other Forms of Corporal Marking. London: H.F. & WItherby, 1925. Octavo, original red cloth gilt.

First edition, with eight plates of photographic illustrations, 16 in-text illustrations, and a folding map.

The author  W.D. Hambley of this early anthropological account of the practice of tattooing was trained at Oxford and worked as the assistant curator of African Ethnology of the Field Museum in Chicago. In addition to discussing the history of tattooing, different techniques of tattooing and geographic distribution of tattooing, he writes about it in relation to religious ceremonial beliefs and traditional practices, magic of tattooing, and tattooings  “social and anti-social purposes.

This rare book about Tattooing is in fabulous condition for its age of 100 Years Old

Title: The History of Tattooing and its Significance

Printed: 1925

Author: W.D. Hambley

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