The Pioneers of British Tattooing Vol. 1

AUTHOR     Terry Manton PAGES        249 BINDING    Hard Cover SIZE           12" x 8.75" WEIGHT     3.0 lbs CONTENT  Vintage Photos & Art   This new book – written by British tattoo historian Terry Manton – will introduce the reader to the pioneering ladies and gentlemen who earned their living from tattooing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Not just to the well-known tattoo artist such as Sutherland Macdonald, Tom Riley, Alfred South and George Burchett, but to the lesser known pioneers  of electric tattooing like George Bigmore, Charlie Bell, Bill Mansford, Cecil and Manley Rhodes, Alex Gordon, Bill Donnelly, Leo Heath, Bob Devine, Alex Gillmore and many, many more. Learn the incredible story of Lucy Battell – one of Britain’s earliest female tattoo artists – and read of the early professors of tattooing who operated in the ports of Cardiff, Portsmouth, Liverpool, Chatham, Dover, and Plymouth and in the military garrison towns of Folkestone and A