jmd
Some of the recent threads have made me reflect on which book(s) I would really like to keep is I could only take a very limited number of decks & books in any important life change/move.
I must admit, that so many books have portions which I would dearly like to have. My ideal book, then, would include a historical section, and illustrations from other decks and, very importantly, non-Tarot related materials (such as Egypto-Graeco-Roman texts and images).
At the moment, I suppose that the two books I would unreservedly want to keep - even if they contain much which I would want to add - are the only I have reviewed on this site: Meditations on the Tarot and O'Neill's Tarot Symbolism... but of course, if I start listing all the wonderful books I wouldn't want to lose, from Wirth's The Tarot of the Magicians to Kaplan's Encyclopedia of Tarot, my list would become longer that I envisaged the purposes of this thread/post.
But what of an ideal single Tarot book (excluding, of course, the necessary loose-leafed 78 page version!)?
I must admit, that so many books have portions which I would dearly like to have. My ideal book, then, would include a historical section, and illustrations from other decks and, very importantly, non-Tarot related materials (such as Egypto-Graeco-Roman texts and images).
At the moment, I suppose that the two books I would unreservedly want to keep - even if they contain much which I would want to add - are the only I have reviewed on this site: Meditations on the Tarot and O'Neill's Tarot Symbolism... but of course, if I start listing all the wonderful books I wouldn't want to lose, from Wirth's The Tarot of the Magicians to Kaplan's Encyclopedia of Tarot, my list would become longer that I envisaged the purposes of this thread/post.
But what of an ideal single Tarot book (excluding, of course, the necessary loose-leafed 78 page version!)?
