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105 (NIGHTINGALE, Florence.) PROCTER, Adelaide Anne (ed.) The Victoria Regia. A volume of original contributions in poetry and prose. London: Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press, (for the Employment of Women), 1861 Tall quarto. Original green cloth over bevelled boards, titles and elaborate decoration within patterned frames to spine and covers in gilt, crown mo- tif central to both covers, brown coated endpapers, edges gilt. Illustrated initials, head- and tailpieces. Later ownership inscription in pencil to front free endpaper verso. Gilt to spine lightly rubbed, slight rubbing to edges, touch of wear to very tips, a couple of gatherings a little proud, light foxing; a very good copy. First edition, a superb association copy, inscribed by Florence Nightingale on the half-title, “Mrs. Webb Watson, with the kind and grateful regards of Florence Nightingale, Dec. 1865”; and sub- sequently re-inscribed by Webb Watson on the front free endpaper verso (“Presented to L. Martin Edmunds by Mrs. Webb Watson”). The work was printed at the Victoria Press, which was founded by Emily Faithfull in 1860 in order to provide work for women as compositors. Faithfull and Adelaide Procter (1825–1864), who ed- ited this collection of poetry and prose printed in Queen Victoria’s honour, were co-founders of the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women in 1859 (see item 142). Procter also helped found the English Woman’s Journal in 1858, in which Nightingale was regularly mentioned, and was close friends with other noted feminists and members of the Langham Place Group, such as Bessie Rayner Parkes and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, who was Nightingale’s first cousin. Nightingale shared many of the Langham Place Group’s concerns, most strongly the need for improved sanitation. £4,750 [131565]
104 NICHOLS, Bev, as “Cindy Ray”. The Story of . . . A Tattooed Girl. [Together with:] How to do Good Tattooing [and:] Cindy Ray, Catalogue No. 2 [and:] Ear Rings, Ear Piercing by Cindy Ray. Ivanhoe, Victoria: Miss Cindy Ray, 1965 3 volumes, octavo. Original spiral comb-bound with original laminated pic- torial card wrappers, the first two with plastic combs, the last with a wire comb. With a single sheet folding brochure. Profusely illustrated through- out. A Tattooed Girl : punch-strip of front wrapper professionally renewed, else a little light wear to all. Overall in very good condition. rare complete set of all of legendary tattoo artist cindy ray’s books, the copy of her practical manual in- scribed inside the front wrapper, “To Lowell J. Tuckwiller, Best wishes & kind regards, Cindy”, with Tuckwiller’s circus collection ink stamp above. Ray became an icon of tattoo culture in the early 1960s after responding to an ad for a photographic model willing to shave her eyebrows. The photographer, Harry Bartram, persuad- ed Ray to be tattooed, with the promise of fame and fortune as a “tattooed lady”. While Ray became a tattoo artist herself, operat- ing a waterfront studio outside Melbourne that catered to sailors, Bartram transformed “Cindy Ray” from a side-show act into a full- scale brand, selling tattoo guns, piercing tools and rings, instruc- tional guides, and the like. Particularly popular with internation- al audiences were photographs of Ray and other heavily tattooed women. The many examples seen in these volumes show enduring imagery associated with women’s tattoos like swallows, butterflies and fairies along with more traditional Sailor Jerry-inspired and Japanese styles. Ray, now in her seventies and still a practising tat- too artist, has stated in recent interviews that the Cindy Ray brand was largely managed by Bartram and she was excluded from shar- ing in any profits. Still, Ray is regarded as a pioneer for female tat- too artists and was inducted into the Lyle Tuttle Museum’s Tattoo Hall of Fame in 2005. Ray’s books are individually rare, and exceptionally so as a set. OCLC shows only single holdings for each title. Together, this group provides a detailed look into body art and modification cul- ture at the earliest stages of its conversion from specialised subcul- ture to the mainstream phenomenon we see today, from one of its most important and pioneering figures. £3,000 [125093]
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