The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination Illustrating the Greater and Lesser Arcana ...

Title: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination Illustrating the Greater and Lesser Arcana ...

Author: de Laurence, L.W. [Lauron William]

Publication: Chicago, Ill.: The de Laurence Company, 1918.

Description: Explains the history of the tarot, symbolism found in the tarot, and methods of reading tarot cards. First edition. Black-and-white illustrations of tarot cards throughout. Bound in full navy cloth, stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. 9 x 5.75 inches; 176 pages. Label of occult bookseller Samuel Weiser on front pastedown. Signature of former owner on front flyleaf. Binding rather edgeworn and moderately soiled, interior lightly toned with pencil underlines on a few pages. Very Good. Lauron William de Laurence (1868-1936) was a Chicago-based hypnotist, occult writer, and publisher who became notorious for leading a cult called the Order of the Black Rose. Full title: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination, Illustrating the Greater and Lesser Arcana, Embracing the Veil and Its Symbols, Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination, Art of Tarot Divination, Outer Method of the Oracles, the Tarot in History, Inner Symbolism, the Greater Keys.