Quick, can someone tell me these dates?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 28 Aug 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

blackroseivy	28 Aug 2004
I am looking for the years of the original publication of the Thoth & the RW, if someone would be so kind - I'm developing my website, & want to be accurate as to particulars. Thanx! :D

Lee	28 Aug 2004
The first edition of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck was published in 1909. Crowley's book, "The Book of Thoth," was first published in 1944 with the Thoth cards shown as illustrations in the book. Also in 1944 a small number of badly-printed decks were printed. In 1969, the paintings were photographed and the first mass-market deck was produced. In 1977, the paintings were rephotographed and printed with better color reproduction, and this is the edition which you get now if you buy the "non-greenish" version. -- Lee

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