1810. Blocquel and Castiaux put out another dream manual, Le grand Traité des Songes ... avec 50 gravures. ... Édition augmentée de l'art de lire dans le marc de café, https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRtbAAAAcAAJ&soursce=gb_navlinks_s. The illustrations, which are in the shape of cards, are different than in 1809.
c 1810 or 1820 (or 1802?). 1810 is when DDD p. 144, date the “Nouvel Eteila, ou le Petit Necromancien” produced by publisher Robert. In note 5 p. 282 they cite Depaulis 1984, no. 133. Depaulis now says 1820. It is listed in March 1820 Bibliographie de la France, But see also 1802b entry here. 36 cards, 32 plus four “consultant” cards, all with a scene. Uses eight of Etteilla’s tarot figures, DDD say. Images are the same as in “1789 or later” entry for “Mme. Finet", except that there are no small images of playing cards in the lower corners
1814. Marie Anne Adelaide begins publishing under pen-name Mlle. M.A. LeNormand (http://books.google.com/books?id=0ds...page&q&f=false). These books recount clairvoyancy rather than a method to read cards, but did much to popularize fortune-telling, including with cards. Etteilla followers did not hesitate to associate themselves with her; the author of the 1838 book listed below, for example, is called “la Sibylle du faubourg Saint-Germain,” a Lenormand epithet (DDD p. 147).
1814. Napoleon exiled to Elba, Louis XVII installed as King of France. Napoleon escapes in 1815. Defeated at Waterloo, he is exiled to St. Helena Island, dying there 1821.
c. 1815. Date Kaplan estimates (but also saying “early 19th century”) for a version of the Petit Oracles des Dames he has (Encyclopedia vol 1 p. 157), with 82 p. booklet. Images at http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?p=3041148 . These are half-cards that have been cut and re-arranged.
1817. Feb., Gueffier jeune acquires the remaining few examples of the Book of Thoth, published by Etteilla, consisting of several volumes and a deck of 78 cards with symbolic figures (http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.p...&postcount=320).
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| Livre du Thot, a 4 in 1 volume. Du Dictionnaire synonymique du livre de Thot [In a 1827 listing, Petieux has the rights to this] Du Cours pratique da livre de Thot Grand Jeu, consisting of 78 cards, with hieroglyphic figures. price 36-0 (Or the game of cards sold separately, price 9-0) To be found from the same address: le Petit Oracle des Dames composed of 42 cards, enclosed in a case with instructions. price 3-0 Le Petit Eteilla, composed of 33 cards, enclosed in a case with instructions, and a book of dreams for the lottery. 3-0 L‘Introduction à la fortune, ou l’Art de corriger ses défauts à la loterie; avec les Reves, etc. 4-0 |
The acquisition is published under a notice of a transfer of funds (Mutations de Fonds), implying the acquisition of commercial rights (including e.g. publishing rights).
c. 1820a. 52 card version, plus a blank, of “Jeu divinatoire géographique”, originally a 32 + 1 card deck, which is at http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/...%89trangers%27. The 52 card version is referenced in lot 50 of Cartes a Jouer et Tarots: Collection Claude Guiard, Samedi 5 Novembre 2011, Millon, Maison de ventes aux Encheres, Paris. Some cards are based on illustrations in the 1797-1798 work of St-Sauveur (see entry 1797-1798) according to comments in an auction catalog of Nov. 2011 posted by Kwaw (“figures of folk are inspired by the paintings of the main plates of peoples Europe, Asia, Africa, America ... by Jacques grasset st-savior (Paris, Year VI)”, at http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread...52#post4540263). Cards have on them what appear to be lottery numbers and divinatory expressions. The aces present moral allegories, with designs that overlap with the c. 1790 cards. http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.p...&postcount=342. This device of having people in folk costumes in a deck with allegorical cards had already been used by Poilly in his Minchiate Francesi (c. 1660), with representatives of the four continents as court cards (see http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=249390). The “Amour” of these decks is very similar to that in the Poilly decks (and to other pre-1820 “Amour” cards).
c. 1820b. Card-maker H. Pussey “flourishes”, according to the BM at http://www.britishmuseum.org/researc...x?bioId=159403. The BM has an example from “c. 1820” of a Pussey Petit Etteilla at http://www.britishmuseum.org/researc...tteilla&page=1, showing the suit of clubs. 6 of the 8 cards have the upright Etteilla meanings. 2 are different. No reversed meanings; insteadm the card has an illustration relating to the keyword.
1820c. Gueffier jeune. rue Bourtebourg no. 12 (?) republishes Etteilla’s Zodiac mysterieux. online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k622696.r=Etteilla.
1820d. Book Le veritable cartomancie, by Louise Amron, Paris 1820, according to p. 79 of Il Tarocchino di Bologna: Storia, Iconografia, Divinazione, by Andrea Vitali and Terry Zanetti. This last book has a picture from it giving divinatory meanings for the Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, and 7 of Diamonds, plus the Consultant card, so a piquet deck plus one, as is the Petit Etteilla. Many of Amron’s divinatory meanings derive from Etteilla's Petit Etteilla, but using Etteilla's reversed meanings and combinatory meanings simply as additional meanings. Other meanings are borrowed from the Grand Etteilla (for courts); some seem not derived form Etteilla. Amazon.fr has this entry: "La Véritable Cartomancie expliquée par la célèbre sibylle française, mise en tableaux par l'héritière de Mlle L. Norma, savante cartomancienne du XVIIIe siècle. Nouvelle édition"... Signé Louise Amron. Published 1898. BnF lists only a 1975 reprint.
1823. M. Peytieux, “libraire, passage du Caire, n.121, à Paris”, purchases the rights and remaining stock of Le Petit Oracle des Dames & Le Veritable Etteilla from Gueffier jeune. This firm has been in existence at least since 1798 (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...2%2C253&edge=0 , described at http://tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p...&postcount=322 .
1824a. In January Peyteux changes his address to “gallerie Delorme”, a possible connection to a later firm called “Delorme”. http://tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p...&postcount=333 .This post also documents “Mutations des Fonds” between Gueffier and Peyteux.
1824b. Mme. Finet “Nouvel Eteila” printed or reprinted per Depaulis’s personal communication to Kwaw of Dec. 24, 2015, reported at http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php...24#post4547267. However in an 1824 book what is advertised "chez Mme. Finet" is a "Grand Eteila [sic], ou l'art de tirer les cartes", 32 cards, and a "Petit Eteila, ou le Necromancien des dames", 36 cards with allegorical scenes. but no "Nouvel Eteila" as such:: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread...122602&page=40. See also “c. 1789 or later” entry, above, and c. 1840, below.
1825. In Russia, a 42 card deck similar to the c. 1790 France 66 card deck is produced, of which 41 seem to have survived: https://picasaweb.google.com/1045543...eTelling1825#; also at http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks05/d02370/d02370.htm. See comparisons at http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=248520, posts 6-9, discussed further in post 10. 38 of the cards are similar to cards in the first 42 of c. 1790, and 2 others are on similar themes as cards in c. 1790. The "Minister" cards are not in the 1825. The deck might be related to Guignard’s second son’s career in Russia, where he fought against Napoleon and married a Russian princess (before 1805), returning to France in 1822 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand...e_Saint-Priest).
1826a. Pierre Mongie l’aine (the elder) publishes Etteilla’s tarot deck (Grand Etteilla I) from the original copper plates, but altered to erase the astrological symbols in the corners. To most of the trumps, court cards and Aces, it adds new titles in cursive script, inside the picture frame, of a Masonic or Biblical flavor, such as “Hiram’s Masonry” for card 2 or “Solomon” for card 8. On card 1, instead of “Etteilla” and “Questionnant” it has “L’Homme qui consulte” both top and bottom (Kaplan vol. 2 p. 400f). There is also a book, L'arte de tirer les cartes et les tarots, ou Cartomancie Francaise, Egyptienne, Italienne et Allemand (The art of reading cards and tarots, or French, Egyptian, Italian and German Cartomancy), https://books.google.com/books?id=tBtbAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. The author, given as “Aldegonde Perenna, Sybille Polonaise”, is actually Gabrielle de Paban, cousin of editor and collaborator Collin de Plancy (DDD p. 145). In an introductory essay, de Plancy says that the 1200 pages of Etteilla’s two large volumes contain nothing but astrological fantasies; the present work, by contrast, is at least clear. Its chapters on cartomancy with ordinary, de Plancy cites the Oracle Parfait of 1802 and proceeds to copy, DDD say (p. 146), some twelve pages from that book without quotation marks. Its section on “Egyptian tarots” was reprinted numerous times by Grimaud to accompany its reprints of Etteilla’s deck (DDD pp. 145).
1826b. Simon Blocquel in Lille publishes Le petit Etteilla ou l'Art de tirer les cartes d'après les plus célèbres cartomanciers, orné de 33 gravures, online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10527480w.item. This is not the first Blocquel-Castiaux edition of this work. but the only one I find online
1827. Gueffier jeune is still listed as selling the Grand Etteilla, consisting of several volumes and deck for 36fr, or 9fr for the cards alone (http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.p...&postcount=320), but this is the last year found for either Gueffier jeune or Peytieux.
1830, July Revolution in Paris establishes constitutional monarchy, with election of Louis-Philippe as king.
c. 1840. Date estimated for "Finet", “Nouvel Eteilla/Petit Cartomancien’ by Cary Collection, FRA 194 and FRA sheet 176; http://tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p...&postcount=331 and http://tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p...&postcount=337 . See “c. 1789 or later” for more cross-references..
1840. Baptiste-Jean Grimaud arrives in Paris at age 23 (Corodil at http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread...93#post2110993, drawing on an article in the review "As de Trèfle"). In 1848, Grimaud buys the workshop of cartier Arnould (http://www.france-cartes.fr/). In 1851 he forms the société Grimaud & Cie. with two partners, and in 1858 signs a contract with inventor Firmin Chappellier so as to print cards industrially, making cards with rounded metallic corners (see Corodil). This firm will be one later known for its reprints of Etteilla decks and booklets. Grimaud is still allowed to say the firm started in 1748 (and does so on numerous Marseille-style 2 of Coins), but there aren't really any cards bearing the Grimaud name before 1851, or machine-made Grimaud cards before 1858. (Kaplan, Encyclopedia of Tarot vol. 2 p. 203 and 211, is to that extent wrong when he says "...B. P. Grimaud, begun in 1748". The "1748" date is important because after 1817, government regulations in France greatly limited firms' access to the market, in effect creating a closed market (marché fermé), a situation which lasted until 1945 (http://www.france-cartes.fr/).
1841 or earlier. Reprint of both Le Nouvel Etteilla, ou Moyen infaillible de tirer les cartes et de lire dans l’avenir par l’interpretation des songes. and Le Petit Oracle des Dames, ou Recreation du curieux, by de Ducessoir – “A Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautes”. http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.p...&postcount=316 . A deck of the Petit Oracle des Dames with 42 cards, “early 19th century” according to the British Museum (http://www.britishmuseum.org/researc...61488&partId=1), shows a snippet of its accompanying booklet, Le Petit Oracle des Dames, ou Recreation du curieux It is identical in text typeface and pagination to that of the same title published by Ducessois (1841 or earlier), at 55 Rue des Augustins, http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt...te.langEN.zoom. When the same comparison is made with the 1807 booklet, the words are the same but the layout on the page is not. This may suggest that the BM deck is 1841, since before then the books and plates were simply acquired each from the publisher preceding.
1843. “Jeu de la Princesse” deck appears as illustrations in the book L'art de tirer les cartes : révélations complètes sur les destinées au moyen des cartes et des tarots d'après les méthodes les plus certaines, suivis d'un jeu des patiences, https://archive.org/details/b28750640/mode/2up. The author on the title page says "Johannes Trismégiste", taking the name of the legendary Egyptian sage. DDD p. 150 say the deck was designed by Lorambert, but even that may be a pseudonym, for "E. Weller", archive.org tells us. At the same time its contents, in part, bear a close similarity to the book that went with the Mongie deck of 1826 (see entry), with enough of the same words to suggest that one led to the other. However the comments for individual tarot cards are quite different. The 1843 is reprinted in 1850, per DDD. Then comes a new edition of 1864, cards at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105431785.item, with a much rewritten text, at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k934848j. This link has "Passard, François-Lubin" as the
author of the text, but also saying "par Delanoue" in brackets on the previous line. The latter is given on p. 32, at the end of a chapter most of which is in quotation marks, so perhaps he is author of just that part, on history. The book is so different from the 1843 that Passard or Delanoue may well have superseded Lorambert/Weller as "Johannes Trismegiste". DDD describe the deck as in the style of Etteilla, but with some of the designs more Egyptian looking than his, for example card 1 has an Egy
ptian sage. They add that some of the cards (of the 1864?) "bear the same inner inscriptions as those in Mongie's version of Grand Etteilla I", a deck they say Allemagne dated at 1845. The 1864 has more Egyptian-sounding titles than the previous, including more of the courts, as well as 1 King
Thoth, 3 Anubis and 8 The Princess Tarot. The accompanying book, DDD say, has it that Princess Tarot was a great prophetess of
Thebes and Memphis. The deck is printed in 1880 (Card 1 right) by Charles Watilliaux,
whose firm was active 1874-1908 (https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/princesse-tarot-circa-1880s-paris-watilliaux-78-4740237-details.aspx) and reprinted by Dusserre (http://tarotgarden.com/princesse-tarot); some of the cards are shown by DDD, plate 7. There is also a version called Cartomanzia Italiana put out by Edizioni del Solleone in 1983 (http://www.tarotpedia.com/wiki/Cartomanzia_Italiana) and one by Lo Scarabeo (http://www.learntarot.com/eadesc.htm).
1845, 1850, 1854. Another book by "Johannes Trismégiste" is L'art d'expliquer les songes, ou, Signification détaillé de tous les songes. It is published in 1845 by the same Jules Laisné, who published the 1843 book, https://archive.org/details/b28750639/page/n2/mode/2up, then in 1850 by Martinot, https://books.google.com/books?id=-pENAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. and again, minus its first two chapters, by Passard, https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRtbAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s. He also has L'art de connaître l'avenir par la chiromancie, les horoscopes, les divinations anciennes, le marc de café, etc., in 1845 Brussels, https://books.google.com/books?id=hwRCAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, and another, edited by Passard in 1854, on "magnetism", https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1078522p. The first two, at laest, are similar but not identical to works put out by Blocquel and Castiaux, notably the 1810. Also, the "Sybille Polonaise" (see 1826a entry) had written a work on chiromancy in 1818 under the name "Gabrielle Perenna, sybille provencale (DDD p. 147).
1840s. The 1838 "Julia Orsini" book is reprinted with the same pagination as n 1838, differing only in the addition of one illustration, in the information about where it may be obtained on the title page, and the advertisements in the back. For scans and more discussion, see my post at http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=21477&sid=a2f14f2207044bb2f92a3d36ae8c1530#p21477. My copy of reference is in the collection of the publishing firm of Lo Scarabeo in Turino.
1848. 2nd Republic established in France, electing Louis Napoleon as President. 2md Republic becomes 2nd Empire in an 1852 coup, with Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon I, as Emperor Napoleon III.
1850-1890 The BnF has a "Grand Etteilla" dated in this range, published by Delorme. See http://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engin...#resultat-id-1. It is a stenciled woodcut version of the "Grand Etteilla II" deck. The same Gallica search (“Delorme Etteilla”) turns up a Grand et Petit Etteilla, ou l’Art de tirer les cartes, donnant, etc. at “Paris, chez Labailly, quai des Augustins 27” in the Bibliographie de France for 1849..
1853. L’art de tirer les cartes by “Julia Orsini.” appears with this date in the bibliography of the English translation of Papus's Tarot of the Bohemians., 2nd and 3rd editions, and also the French original p. 241 (online at https://books.google.com/books?id=vDTgoD9H82QC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Orsini&f=false). That "Julia Orsini" edition seems to be the copy in the holdings of the Wellcome Library in London, viewable at http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2932122?lang=eng or, in lower resolution but easier to use, https://archive.org/details/b29321220/page/n6/mode/2up. The date given on these links is "1850" with "publisher unknown", but Papus's date is more specific, and "Blocquel-Castiaux" is clearly printed on an early page. It differs from the 1838 edition in pagination; also, some illustrations and passages have been added or omitted. For details, with scans of the 1838 for comparison, see http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=21461&sid=a2f14f2207044bb2f92a3d36ae8c1530#p21461. The “explications” section of this book is the basis of the LWB to the current Editions Dusserre Tarot Egyptien: Grand Jeu du Oracle des Dames deck, even though that deck’s pictures often do not fit the descriptions in the book. The Dusserre deck is a “Grand Etteilla III,” while the book was written for a “Grand Etteilla II.” Editions Dusserre provides an English translation on facing pages; its total number of pages, including both English and French, is 112.
1856. Publication of Tarot Egyptien: Grand Jeu du Oracle des Dames,
78 cards, per DDD p. 149 designed by G. Regamey, originally printed by
chromo-lithography by Hangard-Mauge, published by firm of Delarue
(Blocquel’s son-in-law). DDD give 1867 as the date for this data. Kwaw (http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.p...&postcount=273) finds that the BnF shows it advertised in Feuilleton du Journal de la Librairie for 5 July, 1856 (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt...des%20dames%22).
It is an Etteilla deck with the same keywords and titles as the “Grand
Etteilla II”, but with many of the trump figures derived from the 15th
century Nuremburg Chronicle. (An exception is card 1, at right.) This style of deck is generally
referred to as a “Grand Etteilla III”. The accompanying booklet is
called Les Récréations de la cartomancie ou Description pittoresque
de chacune des cartes du grand jeu de l'oracle des dames, avec des
combinaisons pour expliquer le présent, le passé, l'avenir, by Mlle
Lemarchant ["sic"] published “Paris : tous les marchands de nouveautés”.
A photocopy is in Google Books (first entry at https://www.google.com/search?q=Les+...utf-8&oe=utf-8),
dating it to 1850. However at the end of the booklet there is an
advertisement for a book showing how to address petitions to His Majesty
the Emperor. This would be Napoleon III, who assumed that title in Dec.
of 1852. These advertisements also state that the cards themselves were
published with the booklet, using the relatively new (invented 1837,
per Wikipedia) technology of chromo-lithography. The text appears to be a
radical revision of the “Julia Orsini” explications; the descriptions
of the cards fit the new pictures. There are three versions of this deck. What seems to be the original one is featured at https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3266536&page=1&partId=1&searchText=Grand%20Etteilla, dated there to c. 1865. There are no keywords, just "droit" and "renverse". Another,the basis for the current Dusserre reprint, is at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105431874.r=grand%20oracle%20des%20dames?rk=64378;0, dated there to 1890-1900. The difference is that the BM's images conform to the designs in the booklet and better to the Nuremburg Chronicle, while the other's images in some cases are slightly different. Card 8, pictured above in both versions, exemplifies the differences. There is also another variation, with white backs and some cards shown, at https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cartomancer/2018/12/13/fundamentals-in-reading-a-visual-text, and with blue backs at https://taroflexions.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/theme-tarot. In this last note especially the Sun facing right instead of left (graphic below by "Tarot John").
1860 or earlier. Someone starts reprinting Etteilla’s original deck
(the “Grand Etteilla I”), with a sunburst on card 1(at right) and
clothing on the small figures of card 14 (as in D'Odoucet's book illustrations). Unlike modern Grimaud these
retain the two numbers on cards 13-17. It is not known when the changes
(sunburst and clothing) started; the 42 card Petit Oracles des Dames
versions of these images invariably have the sunburst, but a loincloth
on the female devil only. A Grand Etteilla I example at the BM, listed
as "1800-1850", has a museum stamp used until 1860, and is reviewed in
Willshire's 1876 museum catalog:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/researc...tteilla&page=1 .
1857a. Reprint of Hisler's German translation (?) of Etteilla's Cours Theorique et Practique, now with the title Theoretischer und praktischer Unterricht über das Buch Thot oder über die höhere Kraft, Natur und Mensch, mit Zuverläßigkeit die Geheimnisse des Lebens zu enthüllen und Orakel zu ertheilen: nach der Egyptier wunderbarer Kunst; it has black and white German Etteilla I card images, http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/sdd/urn/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-75472.
1857b. First biography of Etteilla, by Millet-Saint-Pierre, at https://books.google.de/books?id=VFUxAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&vq=etteilla#v=onepage&q=etteilla&f=false, pp. 431-484.Not 1859, as DDD report (p. 76 and note on p. 275), that is a reissue, at https://books.google.de/books?id=r8NJAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s.
1861. Russian Etteilla-style deck published with book. Cards at https://www.villarevak.org/ett/ett_con.html, and trumps only, showing their similarity to the Etteilla III, at http://green-door.narod.ru/rusett1.html. Book on Facebook, for link see Tarot John's post at http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=21480&sid=68e82236492f227cdccf38a3dc544725#p21480.
1867. Edition of Marchand, Les Récréations de la Cartomancie. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9945783
1870, July. Napoleon III deposed after French defeat in Franco-Prussian War. 3rd Republic established, which lasts until 1939.
1875. Publication of L'art de tirer les cartes, avec toutes les
explications anciennes et modernes des cartomanciens les plus célèbres:
précédé d'un dictionnaire abrégé des sciences divinatoires, by
Antonio Magus, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9804442q. It contains another variation on Etteilla's designs; card 1 is at left (courtesy of "Tarot John), The lithographs signed "Li Dumont del. S.C.". The "Dumont" is probably the artist and engraver indicated at https://data.bnf.fr/fr/14094971/louis-paul-pierre_dumont. See also Kaplan, vol. 2, p. 410 (two cards, Folly and Fortune), DDD pp. 161, 163-164, 281n68, 282n7 and http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=21504#p21504.
1880-1890 – An H. Pussey Grand Etteilla I is dated by the BnF as 1880-1890 (http://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engin...tteilla%22%29# , number 1). In that the body of water on card 3 is green rather than Grimaud's blue, it is much like a deck dated by Associazione Le Tarot as "beginning of the 19th century" http://www.associazioneletarot.it/page.aspx?id=233#; but this dating is not secure. The BM's card 3 (see entry for "1860 or earlier") has blue water.
c. 1890. At the BnF is also a Grand Etteilla I published by "Grimaud et Chartier", c. 1890 (see link in “1880-1890” entry, number 3, with “ancienne fabrique” [former factory] as Lequart et Mignot).
1890 - “the company Grimaud increased considerably her catalogue with several divinatory games thanks to the purchase of the companies Pussey then Lequart et Mignot. From the first (company), she borrows the Sybille des Salons, the Jeu de la main and the Grand jeu de Mlle Lenormand; and from the second (company), Le Destin Antique, the Grand and the Petit Etteilla, the Petit oracle des Dames and the Petit Cartomancien.” From article in As de Trefle translated by Corodil, http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.p...&postcount=288 The implication is that 1890 is when Grimaud started publishing the Grand Etteilla I.
1890-1917. The tax stamp abolished in 1790 for playing cards returns in 1890, lasting until 1917 (Kaplan vol. 2). However the absence of a stamp does not always mean that the card is before 1890. Examples of Etteilla decks with this stamp are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumada...634144383225/: two lithographed Etteilla IIIs from Delarue, a Grimaud c. 1890 Etteilla I at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumada...57631583898258 , a Pussey c. 1900 Etteilla I at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumada...57631580703610. He also has a Lismon Etteilla II at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumada...57631592690647 and another Etteilla II, unknown date, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumada...th/8007336948/, The Lismon of this vintage included an abridged version of “Julia Orsini’s” c. 1838 explications. Grimaud used the “Egyptian” part of the 1826 book, 168 pp.
1903. “Dr. Moorne”, Los maravillosos secretos de los naipes. Arte
completo de echar las cartas. Segun el sistema egipcio de 78 Taros y
los metodos mas usados y conocidos en Francia y en Espana (The
wonderful secrets of the cards. The complete art of laying the cards.
According to the Egyptian system of 78 Tarots and the most used and
known methods in France and Spain.) Madrid, 272p., 19.5cm.
Printing of 1910 at http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000250271 (book illustration of card 1 at right). Published by Pueyo (Kwaw’s source: Gregorio Pueyo (1860-1913): librero y editor
by Miguel Angel Bull Pueyo. p.126; it is the same for the 1910 online). “Dr. Moorne” was pseudonym of
Francisco Moreno (full name Francisco Teodomiro Moreno Durán, b.30th
July 1864, d.1933). Other pen-names were Dr. Morral, Mateo, Bachiller
Francisco de Estepa (Sevilla). The book appears to be much like the 1906 book; the images of the cards are in black and white.
c. 1906. (Date is per http://www.lulu.com/product/paperbac...artas/11605580.) “Dr. Moorne,” El supremo arte de echar las cartas, to accompany a Spanish version of the Grand Etteilla III, in which the pictures are on the right, and on the left a Hebrew letter and other symbols. The deck probably existed in the 19th century, in Italian as well as Spanish examples (DDD p. 114f; Kwaw suggests Catalan Taroccos, c.1895, as an example, probably produced by Guarro (http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread...122602&page=28, second post). The book’s expositions are in part derivative from the earlier French booklets. A difference from Etteilla is that the “days of creation” are applied to the cards in sequence: card 2 for the first day, card 3 for the second, and so on for the 7 days of creation (at least in the version at http://www.scribd.com/doc/51537364/E...har-las-Cartas).. The result is that what is pictured on the card usually has little to do with the day of creation as Etteilla characterized it. Also, Dr. Moorne’s elements are in order,
1909. Papus publishes Le Tarot Divinatoire (now available in English as The Divinatory Tarot, which includes the D'Odoucet lists of synonyms and alternative meaning, but keeps the Marseille order of the trumps. He says that his lists come from Etteilla and D’Odoucet. (Papus’s book also has other interpretations, Paul Christian’s and his own.) The illustrations are of Papus’s designs.
1910. A. E. Waite draws extensively from the Etteilla School’s word lists in his Pictorial Key to the Tarot, less systematically than Papus, but still around 30-50% of the time, and without giving Etteilla credit (see http://www.villarevak.org/td/td_1.htm). Judging by certain choices of words, Waite’s source would appear to be the c. 1853 “Julia Orsini,” the one in the bibliography he provided for Papus’s Tarot of the Bohemians.
c. 1945. Simon and his firm France Cartes purchase Grimaud, continue to put out the Grand Etteilla I and its old LWB.
Post-1945 to today. At some point Dusserre re-issues the Grand Etteilla III, still as Tarot Egyptien: Grand Jeu de Oracle des Dames, but with an LWB appropriate to the Grand Etteilla II. (It is the "Julia Orsini" 1853 version”, but omitting the “synonyms and other meanings” that Waite and Papus found so useful.) This LWB still fits, because the keywords of the Grand Etteilla III are the same as those of the Grand Etteilla II (which are also mostly Etteilla’s). It is only the references in the LWB to the pictures that don’t work.
1969. France Cartes/Grimaud puts out the Grand Etteilla I with original French keywords and fairly accurate English translations on the cards. The LWB is the same as in c. 1865, which in turn is much like that of the "Polish sibyl" of 1826, except that there is now an English-only version.
1977 to today. France Cartes/Grimaud’s Grand Etteilla I changes many of the keywords on the cards; it also changes the “significations” given in the LWB (without mentioning the keywords); examples of the new language (largely not Etteilla's) are at http://etteillastrumps.blogspot.com/. English and French are in the same publication, which has been streamlined and has different interpretations than formerly. They still have the quaint Egyptian or Old Testament titles, but at least they correct one of the less inspired titles, that for the card showing the Devil with his captives, from "Eve" (still in 1969) to "Force Majeur", in English, "Evil Force". "Eve" is assigned to card 8 instead. This deck and LWB continue to be put out, although its language is poorly correlated with anything Etteilla wrote. Only the pictures are mostly the same, the main exception still being the sunburst on card 1. .
1840s. The 1838 "Julia Orsini" book is reprinted with the same pagination as n 1838, differing only in the addition of one illustration, in the information about where it may be obtained on the title page, and the advertisements in the back. For scans and more discussion, see my post at http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=21477&sid=a2f14f2207044bb2f92a3d36ae8c1530#p21477. My copy of reference is in the collection of the publishing firm of Lo Scarabeo in Turino.
1848. 2nd Republic established in France, electing Louis Napoleon as President. 2md Republic becomes 2nd Empire in an 1852 coup, with Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon I, as Emperor Napoleon III.
1850-1890 The BnF has a "Grand Etteilla" dated in this range, published by Delorme. See http://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engin...#resultat-id-1. It is a stenciled woodcut version of the "Grand Etteilla II" deck. The same Gallica search (“Delorme Etteilla”) turns up a Grand et Petit Etteilla, ou l’Art de tirer les cartes, donnant, etc. at “Paris, chez Labailly, quai des Augustins 27” in the Bibliographie de France for 1849..
1853. L’art de tirer les cartes by “Julia Orsini.” appears with this date in the bibliography of the English translation of Papus's Tarot of the Bohemians., 2nd and 3rd editions, and also the French original p. 241 (online at https://books.google.com/books?id=vDTgoD9H82QC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Orsini&f=false). That "Julia Orsini" edition seems to be the copy in the holdings of the Wellcome Library in London, viewable at http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2932122?lang=eng or, in lower resolution but easier to use, https://archive.org/details/b29321220/page/n6/mode/2up. The date given on these links is "1850" with "publisher unknown", but Papus's date is more specific, and "Blocquel-Castiaux" is clearly printed on an early page. It differs from the 1838 edition in pagination; also, some illustrations and passages have been added or omitted. For details, with scans of the 1838 for comparison, see http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=21461&sid=a2f14f2207044bb2f92a3d36ae8c1530#p21461. The “explications” section of this book is the basis of the LWB to the current Editions Dusserre Tarot Egyptien: Grand Jeu du Oracle des Dames deck, even though that deck’s pictures often do not fit the descriptions in the book. The Dusserre deck is a “Grand Etteilla III,” while the book was written for a “Grand Etteilla II.” Editions Dusserre provides an English translation on facing pages; its total number of pages, including both English and French, is 112.
1856. Publication of Tarot Egyptien: Grand Jeu du Oracle des Dames,
78 cards, per DDD p. 149 designed by G. Regamey, originally printed by
chromo-lithography by Hangard-Mauge, published by firm of Delarue
(Blocquel’s son-in-law). DDD give 1867 as the date for this data. Kwaw (http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.p...&postcount=273) finds that the BnF shows it advertised in Feuilleton du Journal de la Librairie for 5 July, 1856 (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt...des%20dames%22).
It is an Etteilla deck with the same keywords and titles as the “Grand
Etteilla II”, but with many of the trump figures derived from the 15th
century Nuremburg Chronicle. (An exception is card 1, at right.) This style of deck is generally
referred to as a “Grand Etteilla III”. The accompanying booklet is
called Les Récréations de la cartomancie ou Description pittoresque
de chacune des cartes du grand jeu de l'oracle des dames, avec des
combinaisons pour expliquer le présent, le passé, l'avenir, by Mlle
Lemarchant ["sic"] published “Paris : tous les marchands de nouveautés”.
A photocopy is in Google Books (first entry at https://www.google.com/search?q=Les+...utf-8&oe=utf-8),
dating it to 1850. However at the end of the booklet there is an
advertisement for a book showing how to address petitions to His Majesty
the Emperor. This would be Napoleon III, who assumed that title in Dec.
of 1852. These advertisements also state that the cards themselves were
published with the booklet, using the relatively new (invented 1837,
per Wikipedia) technology of chromo-lithography. The text appears to be a
radical revision of the “Julia Orsini” explications; the descriptions
of the cards fit the new pictures. There are three versions of this deck. What seems to be the original one is featured at https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3266536&page=1&partId=1&searchText=Grand%20Etteilla, dated there to c. 1865. There are no keywords, just "droit" and "renverse". Another,the basis for the current Dusserre reprint, is at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105431874.r=grand%20oracle%20des%20dames?rk=64378;0, dated there to 1890-1900. The difference is that the BM's images conform to the designs in the booklet and better to the Nuremburg Chronicle, while the other's images in some cases are slightly different. Card 8, pictured above in both versions, exemplifies the differences. There is also another variation, with white backs and some cards shown, at https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cartomancer/2018/12/13/fundamentals-in-reading-a-visual-text, and with blue backs at https://taroflexions.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/theme-tarot. In this last note especially the Sun facing right instead of left (graphic below by "Tarot John").
http://www.britishmuseum.org/researc...tteilla&page=1 .
1857a. Reprint of Hisler's German translation (?) of Etteilla's Cours Theorique et Practique, now with the title Theoretischer und praktischer Unterricht über das Buch Thot oder über die höhere Kraft, Natur und Mensch, mit Zuverläßigkeit die Geheimnisse des Lebens zu enthüllen und Orakel zu ertheilen: nach der Egyptier wunderbarer Kunst; it has black and white German Etteilla I card images, http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/sdd/urn/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:4-75472.
1857b. First biography of Etteilla, by Millet-Saint-Pierre, at https://books.google.de/books?id=VFUxAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&vq=etteilla#v=onepage&q=etteilla&f=false, pp. 431-484.Not 1859, as DDD report (p. 76 and note on p. 275), that is a reissue, at https://books.google.de/books?id=r8NJAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s.
1861. Russian Etteilla-style deck published with book. Cards at https://www.villarevak.org/ett/ett_con.html, and trumps only, showing their similarity to the Etteilla III, at http://green-door.narod.ru/rusett1.html. Book on Facebook, for link see Tarot John's post at http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=21480&sid=68e82236492f227cdccf38a3dc544725#p21480.
1867. Edition of Marchand, Les Récréations de la Cartomancie. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9945783
1870, July. Napoleon III deposed after French defeat in Franco-Prussian War. 3rd Republic established, which lasts until 1939.
1880-1890 – An H. Pussey Grand Etteilla I is dated by the BnF as 1880-1890 (http://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engin...tteilla%22%29# , number 1). In that the body of water on card 3 is green rather than Grimaud's blue, it is much like a deck dated by Associazione Le Tarot as "beginning of the 19th century" http://www.associazioneletarot.it/page.aspx?id=233#; but this dating is not secure. The BM's card 3 (see entry for "1860 or earlier") has blue water.
c. 1890. At the BnF is also a Grand Etteilla I published by "Grimaud et Chartier", c. 1890 (see link in “1880-1890” entry, number 3, with “ancienne fabrique” [former factory] as Lequart et Mignot).
1890 - “the company Grimaud increased considerably her catalogue with several divinatory games thanks to the purchase of the companies Pussey then Lequart et Mignot. From the first (company), she borrows the Sybille des Salons, the Jeu de la main and the Grand jeu de Mlle Lenormand; and from the second (company), Le Destin Antique, the Grand and the Petit Etteilla, the Petit oracle des Dames and the Petit Cartomancien.” From article in As de Trefle translated by Corodil, http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.p...&postcount=288 The implication is that 1890 is when Grimaud started publishing the Grand Etteilla I.
1890-1917. The tax stamp abolished in 1790 for playing cards returns in 1890, lasting until 1917 (Kaplan vol. 2). However the absence of a stamp does not always mean that the card is before 1890. Examples of Etteilla decks with this stamp are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumada...634144383225/: two lithographed Etteilla IIIs from Delarue, a Grimaud c. 1890 Etteilla I at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumada...57631583898258 , a Pussey c. 1900 Etteilla I at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumada...57631580703610. He also has a Lismon Etteilla II at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumada...57631592690647 and another Etteilla II, unknown date, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sumada...th/8007336948/, The Lismon of this vintage included an abridged version of “Julia Orsini’s” c. 1838 explications. Grimaud used the “Egyptian” part of the 1826 book, 168 pp.
c. 1906. (Date is per http://www.lulu.com/product/paperbac...artas/11605580.) “Dr. Moorne,” El supremo arte de echar las cartas, to accompany a Spanish version of the Grand Etteilla III, in which the pictures are on the right, and on the left a Hebrew letter and other symbols. The deck probably existed in the 19th century, in Italian as well as Spanish examples (DDD p. 114f; Kwaw suggests Catalan Taroccos, c.1895, as an example, probably produced by Guarro (http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread...122602&page=28, second post). The book’s expositions are in part derivative from the earlier French booklets. A difference from Etteilla is that the “days of creation” are applied to the cards in sequence: card 2 for the first day, card 3 for the second, and so on for the 7 days of creation (at least in the version at http://www.scribd.com/doc/51537364/E...har-las-Cartas).. The result is that what is pictured on the card usually has little to do with the day of creation as Etteilla characterized it. Also, Dr. Moorne’s elements are in order,
1909. Papus publishes Le Tarot Divinatoire (now available in English as The Divinatory Tarot, which includes the D'Odoucet lists of synonyms and alternative meaning, but keeps the Marseille order of the trumps. He says that his lists come from Etteilla and D’Odoucet. (Papus’s book also has other interpretations, Paul Christian’s and his own.) The illustrations are of Papus’s designs.
1910. A. E. Waite draws extensively from the Etteilla School’s word lists in his Pictorial Key to the Tarot, less systematically than Papus, but still around 30-50% of the time, and without giving Etteilla credit (see http://www.villarevak.org/td/td_1.htm). Judging by certain choices of words, Waite’s source would appear to be the c. 1853 “Julia Orsini,” the one in the bibliography he provided for Papus’s Tarot of the Bohemians.
c. 1945. Simon and his firm France Cartes purchase Grimaud, continue to put out the Grand Etteilla I and its old LWB.
Post-1945 to today. At some point Dusserre re-issues the Grand Etteilla III, still as Tarot Egyptien: Grand Jeu de Oracle des Dames, but with an LWB appropriate to the Grand Etteilla II. (It is the "Julia Orsini" 1853 version”, but omitting the “synonyms and other meanings” that Waite and Papus found so useful.) This LWB still fits, because the keywords of the Grand Etteilla III are the same as those of the Grand Etteilla II (which are also mostly Etteilla’s). It is only the references in the LWB to the pictures that don’t work.
1969. France Cartes/Grimaud puts out the Grand Etteilla I with original French keywords and fairly accurate English translations on the cards. The LWB is the same as in c. 1865, which in turn is much like that of the "Polish sibyl" of 1826, except that there is now an English-only version.
1977 to today. France Cartes/Grimaud’s Grand Etteilla I changes many of the keywords on the cards; it also changes the “significations” given in the LWB (without mentioning the keywords); examples of the new language (largely not Etteilla's) are at http://etteillastrumps.blogspot.com/. English and French are in the same publication, which has been streamlined and has different interpretations than formerly. They still have the quaint Egyptian or Old Testament titles, but at least they correct one of the less inspired titles, that for the card showing the Devil with his captives, from "Eve" (still in 1969) to "Force Majeur", in English, "Evil Force". "Eve" is assigned to card 8 instead. This deck and LWB continue to be put out, although its language is poorly correlated with anything Etteilla wrote. Only the pictures are mostly the same, the main exception still being the sunburst on card 1. .
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