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Ben Corday - Travel Book & Tattoo Designs Set

This set brings together two hardcover facsimiles of flash by Ben Corday, the Scots Guardsman who became one of the best-known tattooers in downtown Los Angeles in the early twentieth century. Both reproduce books Corday painted himself, so together they give a close look at his fine line and bright, clear color from two points in his career.

Ben Corday - Tattoo Travel Book

ARTISTBen Corday
AUTHORDon Ed Hardy
PAGES36
BINDINGHardcover
SIZE8" x 10"
WEIGHT0.82 lbs
CONTENTColor flash and history

Published by Ed Hardy's Hardy Marks, this reproduces the leather-bound album of ink and watercolor flash Corday kept while traveling as a tattooer and carnival tall man in the 1910s and early 1920s. It includes 26 pages of flash at original size, photos and pitch cards, a short introduction by Hardy, and Corday's 1938 obituary supplied by Lyle Tuttle.

Ben Corday - Late of the Guards: Tattoo Designs by Ben Corday

ARTISTBen Corday
AUTHORRich Hardy
PAGES74
BINDINGHardcover
SIZE8.25" x 5.5"
WEIGHT0.83 lbs
CONTENTTales, Photos, Paintings, & so much more!

A limited edition facsimile of the sketchbook in which Corday painted 45 designs around 1918, presented in a slipcase. It's a compact, faithful record of his work at its peak.

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