Complete 78 card Ancien Tarot de Marseille, Fortune Telling Cards by J.M. Simon. Contains 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana cards in the style of traditional Tarot de Marseille depicitng legends, customs, myths, symbols, Christian iconography, Jewish mysticism, alchemy, literature, Hermetic magic, the Western Mystery tradition, and numerology. Printed in France.
Full-colour cards with rounded corners and copyright 'Grimaud. 1963' on upper left hand side. 65 x 123 mm. The backs have a harlequin sunburst with flower corner pieces on a black ground.
Complete with original staple-bound 64-page printed leaflet of instructions in English and in French by J.M. Simon.
Original printed box in good condition with original plastic insert.
First impression of the first edition thus.
Reference -The Encyclopedia of Tarot, 1978 by Stuart Kaplan, page 262.