Thank you both for the info.
I don't think I put myself across properly in my last post.
I was eating pixzza as I typed.
The book is a first edition Gollanz hard back.
At the back of the book it says;
Details of the new Tarot pack drawn by David Sheridan, which illustrate this book, can be obtained from;
Moralice (London) Ltd.,
171 Cromwell Road,
London, S.W.5.
That and all other addresses in the book are the short, old style. This would tie in with the book being from 72.
The deck, and it's box and leaflet have the following address.
Mandragora Press
31 St. Martins Lane
London
WC2N 4EY.
This is the long postcode I was talking about, and shows that this deck (my edition, not the Sheridan in general) was published sometime after the introduction of the long postcodes. 74, I think. Though I agree that Norwich was done much earlier, as was Croydon, as tests for the system.
Gregory, If you say that you got yours in 72 that is good enough for me. That proves I was wrong, and the deck was out at the same time as the book.
And the short postcode shows that too.
however, your short postcode means that at the time yours was publshed Mandragora press was not at St Martins Lane.
EC4 is not WC2.
Is your address in Fleet st?
So, what I was saying was that the book is a first edition from 72, but the deck seems much later.
The sun.
The funny coloured sun in my deck is not the sun card, but the sun in the fool card.
The one at the top of the card, In mine it is yellow. In others on the net it is orange.
My deck. Yes, it sounds different from all the others I have heard about.
It is not sticky, but shuffles very smoothly
The backs are mottled purple/white
The cards measure 6.5 x 11.7cm.
The whole deck is about 3 cm thick. Which is quite thick now that I compare it with other decks.
However, I don't think it is polish.
All the box and the leaflet are in english, as are the cards themselves.
Funny old deck. I'm rather fond of it.