TAROT OF THE BOHEMIANS - Papus / A.E. Waite, 1919 - OCCULT, MAGICK, GRIMOIRE

THE TAROT OF THE BOHEMIANS: THE MOST ANCIENT BOOK IN THE WORLD FOR THE USE OF INITIATESBook Details + Condition: William Rider & Son (London). Second Edition Revised, 1919. By Papus (Gerard Encausse). Translated by A.P. Morton. With Preface by A.E. Waite. 8vo hardcover with unique and attractive variant binding, including royal purple cloth boards, and blind stamp astrological symbols and gilt title to the front and spine. 355 pages, with Index. Includes several black-and-white engraved vignettes and illustrations throughout the text, including two vignettes for each of the tarot trumps and many Kabbalistic, astrological and other diagrams (the last one being double-paged). The book was first published in French in 1889, and an English translation followed in 1892. The first Waite edition was published in 1910, and reissued in 1914. It was then reprinted in 1919 in a somewhat larger format - this is that edition. The 1919 and earlier editions are considered to be the "best" edition