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PublisherStrange Engineering Attractor

ISBN-101907222448

ISBN-139781907222443

eBay Product ID (ePID)237055013

Product Key Features

Book TitleLost Envoy : the Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicDivination / Tarot, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Sociology / General, Occultism

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science

AuthorJonathan Allen

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight32.7 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-288989

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal133.32424092

SynopsisA seventy-nine-card, hand-painted tarot deck created c.1906 by the mystic and artist Austin Osman Spare, reproduced in its entirety, accompanied by contemporary images and texts. In the spring of 2013, a seventy-nine-card, hand-painted tarot deck created c.1906 by the mystic and artist Austin Osman Spare, was identified within the collections of The Magic Circle Museum in London. Austin Spare's lifelong interest in cartomancy is well documented, yet very few of his own fortune-telling cards were thought to have survived. This compelling new example of the artist's early work demonstrates his precocious involvement with the currents that shaped the British Occult Revival at the beginning of the twentieth century, and his interactions with some of the period's artistic and political protagonists including Aleister Crowley, Arthur Ivey, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Pamela Colman Smith. Magic Circle Museum curator and artist Jonathan Allen set about tracing the deck's provenance, its place in the artist's oeuvre, and within the wider histories of cartomancy, potentially re-writing the history of popular Tarot in the early twentieth century. Lost Envoy reproduces Austin Spare's tarot deck in its entirety for the first time, alongside new written and visual contributions from Jonathan Allen, Phil Baker, Helen Farley, Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, Sally O'Reilly, and Gavin Semple.

LC Classification NumberBF1879.T2