This handsome hardcover book offers a gorgeous full-color gallery of nearly one hundred decks. Organized by family--historical, esoteric, artistic, cultural, and metaphysical--each deck is represented by eleven cards (in their actual size) from major and minor arcana. Artwork from the front and back of the cards showcases the stunning imagery and characteristics of each unique tarot. For decks with gold/silver foil features, an actual card is adhered to the page.

Giordano Berti, one of the best contemporary scholars on the history of the tarot, with this book publishes the result of his research on the work of Jean Baptiste Pitois, the famous French occultist who was the first to develop a tie between the Tarot Arcana and Egyptian magic. The expert of esoterism and cartomancy, Tiberio Gonard, takes on in detail, rather, the divinatory meanings and the subtleties of the Egyptian Tarot, here illustrate dby Silvana Alasia.

With 78 illustrated cards and a detailed, illustrated book, this powerful andoriginal set combines the tarot with Celtic lore and runic symbology.