Complete 78 card Chinese Tarot Deck by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and illustrations by Paul Hardy. Contains 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana cards in period style of Shakespearian characters depicitng legends, customs, myths, symbols, Christian iconography, Jewish mysticism, alchemy, literature, Hermetic magic, the Western Mystery tradition, and numerology. Printed in Great Britain.
Full-colour cards with rounded corners and Shakespearian quotes. 62 x 112 mm. The backs have a Grinling Gibbons style early eighteenth century wood carving of a flourishing plant in an urn.
Complete with original perfect-bound 144-page printed book of instructions by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki.
Original printed box in very good condition with original barcode at one end.
ISBN 0261669737. First impression of the first edition.
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