This issue consists of 11 unbound sets of sheets from the original 1944 first edition of this work that were discovered and subsequently bound by Weiser Antiquarian Books in 2007.¹

Printed on Arnold unbleached hand-made paper.¹

All edges are uncut.  (This was done to distinguish this issue from the true first edition in which the top edges are cut and gilt)¹

Bound in half morocco Niger leather over papered boards in a four color Egyptian design.¹ 

Spine stamped in gilt horizontally across spine ‘THE | BOOK | OF | THOTH | [ornament - Seal of Ankh-f-n-khonsu] | OTO | [ornament - OTO Lamen]’¹

“Signed” by way of the inclusion of a signed handwritten letter from Crowley to Lady Frieda Harris.¹

The eight-color plates are reproductions of the originals.¹

Contains a bookplate on the front pastedown stating the provenance of the book and its limitation.¹

Each copy included a four-page booklet detailing the history of the book and printed on original mould-made paper by the Mandrake Press, Ltd.¹

Page(s)

[  i]

Half-title

[  ii]

Limitation notice

[  iii]

Blank

[  iv]

Color plate mounted [The Hierophant]

[  v]

Title-page

[  vi]

Quotation from the Book of Lies, printer’s imprint ‘Made and Printed in Great Britain by | the Chiswick Press Ltd., London, N. 11’

[vii-x]

Contents

[xi-xii]

Bibliographical note

[  1]

Divisional title ‘PART ONE | THE THEORY OF THE TAROT’

[  2]

Blank

[3-48]

Text

[  49]

Blank

[  50]

Color plate mounted [Lust]

[  51]

Divisional title ‘PART TWO | THE ATU | (KEYS OR TRUMPS)’

[  52]

Blank

[53-142]

Text

[143]

Blank

[144]

Color plate mounted [Ace of Swords]

[145]

Divisional title ‘PART THREE | THE COURT CARDS’

[146]

Blank

[147-171]

Text

[172-173]

Blanks

[174]

Color plate mounted [Ace of Disks]

[175]

Divisional title ‘PART IV | THE SMALL CARDS’

[176]

Blank

[177-220]

Text

[221]

Blank

[222]

Color plate mounted [Lovers]

[223]

Divisional title ‘PLATES’

[224]

Blank

[225-244]

Illustrations of “The small cards" and diagrams

[245]

Blank

[246]

Color plate mounted [The Sun]

[247]

Divisional title ‘APPENDIX A THE BEHAVIOR OF THE TAROT:  ITS USE IN | THE ART OF DIVINATION’

[248]

Blank

[249-260]

Text (Appendix A)

[261]

Blank

[262]

Color plate mounted [The Universe]

[263]

Divisional title ‘APPENDIX B’

[264]

Blank

[265-270]

Text (Appendix B)

[271]

Blank

[272]

Color plate mounted [The Key Scale]

[273-287]

Text (Appendix B)

[288]

Blank

[289]

Colophon ‘[device of the Chiswick Press] | CHISWICK PRESS LTD.

[290-292]

Blanks

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Part One:  The Theory of the Tarot

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Part Two:  The Atu (Keys or Trumps)

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Part Three:  The Court Cards

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Part Four:  The Small Cards

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Appendix A

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Appendix B

Illustrations

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The Hierophant (Mounted color plate)

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Lust (Mounted color plate)

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Ace of Swords (Mounted color plate)

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Ace of Disks (Mounted color plate)

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The Lovers (Mounted color plate)

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The Sun (Mounted color plate)

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The Universe (Mounted color plate)

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The Key Scale (Mounted color plate)

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The Small Cards (20 pages)

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Diagrams (4 pages)

1.

Partial manuscript.  Pages:  7.  Warburg Institute Collection.

2.

Bound typescript.  Written by Aleister Crowley for use by Frieda Harris in designing the Book of Thoth tarot cards.  Pages:  409.  Warburg Institute Collection.

3.

Manuscript letters between Aleister Crowley and Frieda Harris.  Pages:  111.  Syracuse University.

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The Book of Thoth, Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), London, 1944.

1.

Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 20, “Aleister Crowley, Frieda Harris, and the Thoth Tarot.”

2.

Dianne Frances Rivers, A Bibliographic List with Special Reference To the Collection at the University of Texas,  Master of Arts Thesis, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1967, pp. 147-149.