c.1935 Ancien Tarot de Marseille B.P. Grimaud ParisFree Shipping Worldwide Card Deck: c. 1935 Ancien Tarot de Marseille Designed by Paul Marteau Published by B. P. Grimaud, Paris, France, c. 1935 This is a rare early edition of the Ancien Tarot de Marseille designed by Paul Marteau and published by B. P. Grimaud, Paris, France. Marteau designed the cards after a c. 1880 deck printed by the renowned card maker Phillippe Camoin. Camoin himself printed the deck with his well known colour palette of

the "Pam-B" (not the Rose & Lillies edition) is the original or 1st edition of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck

Graveur/Engraver: François Isnard (F

with engravings of Coypel

Moulding at p

NEVER BEFORE PRINTED

very learned for his time

Because it is a gathered binding of collected pages from other sources

wands & swords

and discoloration

an important and unusual early printing (see photographs)

Title of the card on each side vertically

though still intact and readable