Skin Deep: The Mystery of Tattooing
- ISBN-10
- 0432143904
- ISBN-13
- 9780432143902
- Series
- Skin Deep
- Category
- Art / Body Art & Tattooing
- Pages
- 205
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1974
- Publisher
- P. Davies
- Authors
- R. W. B. Scutt, Christopher Gotch
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- 2022-03-16
- 336 pages
- Paperback
- Random House Australia
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