4/27/2023 0 Comments The pictorial key to the tarot![]() For all of its pomp and pomposity, this book is “the king ” and the king has been up for grabs almost since its inception, when L. Such gall would be blasphemous had it not completely obliterated the European tarot from American (and many British) minds over the following decades. In short: Waite gave us “proof” of what the tarot was, what it looked like, how it was to be used, and what we should believe when looking at the images in the book. Expanding on the work set down in The Key to the Tarot just one year earlier, Art chose to include Pixie’s images close to their full size and also to include written descriptions of what the reader was seeing in the line art. ![]() While that book does claim credit for the first public appearance of Pam’s tarot art (on its cover) and The Tarot by Mathers (written twenty years earlier) reveals many of Waite’s subsequent ideas on the tarot, it is this book that set in stone the non-European viewpoints of the tarot, as used for divination. The publication of The Pictorial Key to the Tarot made a bold statement that The Tarot of the Bohemiansnever accomplished. Please click on the image to see it full-sized, or on the arrows to scroll through the various pictures. Also, you can find the PDF version of the Key to the Tarot online in numerous places. In the meantime, here’s is a partial list of who published The Key to the Tarot over the years (just below the galleries of PKtT images). When you count up the number of individuals and companies who have printed and published (for sale to the public) The Key to the Tarot, it is a commonly accepted fact but don’t take our word for it. Ask your legal professional (this is good advice for anything to do with the tarot). For a complete list of credited and known printers of the tarot that Rider worked with please see this page. It will take a LOT of research, but British and American law point to these having been public domain for quite some time. No cards or Keys were marked by Rider for copyright until 1971. The dates on all Keys simply refers to the origin date of that particular version. The last year Rider believes the original books were printed was 1939, so the black ink specimens that exist work well with that timeline. These are undated but would most likely have been printed during WWII when there were shortages of all kinds. Still later print runs (still with the “second edition” 1922 copyright) used black ink on the cover instead of gold ink. The previous sentence was speculation, but we do know the various printers who printed the various Keys and Pictorial Keys, so this may have been a cost saving measure. The die, or art, for the snakey may have been created by the first printer and not transferred to the new printer. ![]() This may coincide with the later printings of the unillustrated Key to the Tarot, as they were most likely printed at the same bindery (circa 1920). At some point before the 1922 “second edition” the ouroborous was removed. The first versions had gold debossed front cover and spine text, and also a gold ouroborous. ![]() This is one easy way of instantly telling the approximate year of publication just by looking at the cover. Now, as to the book format, the 1910/1911 versions are bound in orange cloth with a vertical grain while later editions change to a horizontal grain and later a strange effect you just have to see for yourself and decide what it means. Waite for example) I will make sure this information changes. So I guess we can ignore the 1911 publication date printed on the title page of the first edition. At the moment this seems to be solid enough to go on without jumping to unfounded conclusions, but if we are corrected in the future ( by the ghost of A.E.
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