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Re: Tarot Deck Facsimiles

Posted: 06 Jan 2011, 09:16
by hoo
Huck wrote:Well, one might ask, if De Laurence wouldn't have made this epigonic operation, if then the Smith-Waite deck would have become so popular as it did.
Oh - The rather brief Wikipedia article says
...mocked and reviled among modern occultists for his plagiarism (or, more properly, book-pirating) of the Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite...
so I thought that's why you posted the link. Anyway, I never paid any attention to the Waite-Smith Tarot until I found the De Laurent pdf and did some googling, and then, spurred on by your post, did some more googling. Now I'm enchanted.

Re: Tarot Deck Facsimiles

Posted: 06 Jan 2011, 10:33
by Huck
hoo wrote: Oh - The rather brief Wikipedia article says
...mocked and reviled among modern occultists for his plagiarism (or, more properly, book-pirating) of the Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite...
so I thought that's why you posted the link. Anyway, I never paid any attention to the Waite-Smith Tarot until I found the De Laurent pdf and did some googling, and then, spurred on by your post, did some more googling. Now I'm enchanted.
Yes, I thought, the information would be new to you.

Well, it's another point, how to interpret the information and it's value for the historical process, why just this deck took such a hypnotic effect on so much Americans ... :-) ...

"Author's fame" is often the result of a good marketing process, successful productions are not naturally "the best".
And the whole Tarot-success-story is a process of various forms of plagiarism.
And "Harry Potter" was just the work of a poor author and it's normal destiny would have been to go the same way as other works of other poor authors.

Re: Tarot Deck Facsimiles

Posted: 30 Jan 2011, 02:52
by hoo
'Kenji' over at Aeclectic Tarot
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=152736
has posted a link to his site, where he has added hi-rez photos of an original Rider-Waite deck (Apparently the edition known as 'Pamela A')
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/valet_de_coupe/e/ ... f250f66813
These are actually better looking than the ones on the Dover cd.
viewtopic.php?f=9&p=9621#p9621
Kenji's images are larger, clearer, and at 1200 dpi !

Re: Tarot Deck Facsimiles

Posted: 21 Feb 2011, 18:47
by hoo
1922 Rider-Waite deck in B/W
http://grimoire.blog.ocn.ne.jp/doll/201 ... mages.html
by Roppo at Aeclectic
http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php? ... stcount=37

This will be the full deck including 'pips' (In B/W at 300dpi), where Kenji's scans had the major and minor arcana without the pips (In color at 1200dpi).