Collection: Tarot Cards

Reprinted historic decks alongside modern illustrated sets, each with its own guidebook. Prices run from the low twenties to around forty dollars, and every deck here is a full set rather than cards alone.

The 1930 Tarot de Marseille is the one most people start with. B.P. Grimaud of Paris first printed this version in 1930 and discontinued it shortly afterwards as the war began, and the deck in the photographs is a restoration of that edition rather than an interpretation of it. The cards are large at four and three quarter inches by two and three quarter, printed on 350 gram card stock, and each deck comes with a guide.

Le Petit Cartomancien is the older tradition. It is a thirty-six card Petit Lenormand first published in 1875 by the same Paris house, and the cards are meant to represent people in your life rather than abstract forces: the merchant, the widow, the brunette. Decks of this kind were used in French salons to navigate the social politics of the day, and this edition comes with a two-piece box and a guide that translates the card names and explains the spreads.

The Tarot de Viéville pushes further back. The Jacques Viéville tarot was made in Paris around 1650 and the only complete surviving example is held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which makes this the oldest design in the collection. The Scarlet deck is the modern one, with gold foil detail and gilded edges on 400 gram stock, and it comes with an eighty-page guide written for first-time readers.

The Pastel deck, which suits gifting, is the gentlest of the group and the cheapest, based on the classic Rider-Waite-Smith imagery.

If you are buying for someone new to tarot, the guide matters more than the artwork, and the book collection covers the reference side. All of these include one, and the Scarlet and the Lenormand are the two with the most detailed.

We keep the range in stock. If there is a particular deck or tradition you are looking for that you are not able to find on the website, reach out to us and we will be glad to help.