PRELOVED Tarot, The - Joseph Maxwell

This is a secondhand book. The pages are beginning to yellow, otherwise the condition is excellent.

This incredibly informative book gives a detailed study of the Arcana with a comprehensive view of the cards esoteric symbolism as well as the astrological and numerological significances. There is also reference to the colour symbolism of the cards.

Maxwell (1858-1938) had a dual background as both a medical doctor as well as a lawyer, interested in what what was then known as metapsychical phenomena, or what is now known as parapsychology. One such subject was that of the Tarot, to which he devoted over three decades of research, the fruit of which is contained in this book. Prior to its publication, Maxwell published one article on the Tarot in the special issue of the occultist journal Le Voile d’Isis in 1928 dedicated precisely to that topic, “Le symbolisme des arcanes majeurs”. His book was reprinted in 1984 by Archè. It was also translated into English by Ivor Powell and published a number of times as “The Tarot” (Neville Spearman, 1975; Samuel Weiser, 1977; C.W. Daniel Company Ltd, 1988).*