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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0
Don't Judge This Book by Its cover The cover is without doubt the best thing about this book. Its like a cheap 'all about horoscopes' book that you'd get from a bargain book store for £1.99 inside - cheap paper and poor (actually very poor) illustrations. Not my idea of good tattoo book for sure and possibly quite dated. Tripe.
Make sure it's what you're after... Those who criticize this book for a paucity of illustration are missing the point, I think. Rather than being a pictorial source, this book offers an interesting and frequently insightful guide to the semiotics of tattoo art. There is plenty here to get you thinking: designs that you may never have heard of as well as new perspectives on old chestnuts. Some of the un-illustrated oddities are a little frustrating, but it's easy enough to find examples elsewhere. Absorbing it is. A flash-book it... more info
poor quality reference book This book was really dissapointing, very few pictures and the ones that are included are cery basic.