Haha, I figured you'd be bidding on this! I saw it on eBay and considered it - I was thinking of cutting the book apart to scan the original images and make a reproduction deck. I agree your copy is a rebound library edition. It used to be common practice for libraries to rebind books to make the binding last longer, and stay upright on the shelves. Libraries often sell old books to raise funds, but usually they are marked in some way - the call number painted over, the stamps blocked out on the inside, etc. I wonder if this might be an old "lost book" that someone eventually decided to sell.
The Game Crafter has a seller selling De Laurence repro. If the images is all you are interested in. It would be a terrible shame to have to destroy a hard (ish) to find book 😅
@@NobodyHere Yeah, I was 90% kidding. Unfortunately the Game Crafter decks are distorted and don't have the same soft shading as the original. I'd like to see someone take another crack at making a nice modern reprint and get the color match and shading right.
You're killing me with the De Laurence stuff...I feel so needy. Of course every time I see one of those illustrations I go on a search for the deck...someday, it will be mine.
The modern capitalistic definition of "thief" is those who do not have enough money to hire an army of lawyer to fight copyright laws. OTO anyone? They own the images of the Thoth tarot and yet US Games managed to banned them from publishing in English their digital remastered images from 2008. So I do not think De Laurence deserves the title "thief". I am once again green with envy. Thanks as always for sharing!
Great score and video! Thanks for sharing this! As far as the book being pirated it occurs to me that at that time the world was not so interconnected. The Pictorial Key by Rider would have been the UK version while perhaps this was printed for those in the US who didn't have access to the Rider copy.
...or, whomever checked the book out, misplaced and forgot to return it to the library, paid the late fee and it ended up in their personal library until they moved and got rid of their own books. Do you own a yellow copy of the deck? I only have the Ferrol Humphrey's mustard one that I got from Melissa.
It is a one of a kind! Amazing!
Haha, I figured you'd be bidding on this! I saw it on eBay and considered it - I was thinking of cutting the book apart to scan the original images and make a reproduction deck. I agree your copy is a rebound library edition. It used to be common practice for libraries to rebind books to make the binding last longer, and stay upright on the shelves. Libraries often sell old books to raise funds, but usually they are marked in some way - the call number painted over, the stamps blocked out on the inside, etc. I wonder if this might be an old "lost book" that someone eventually decided to sell.
The Game Crafter has a seller selling De Laurence repro. If the images is all you are interested in. It would be a terrible shame to have to destroy a hard (ish) to find book 😅
@@NobodyHere Yeah, I was 90% kidding. Unfortunately the Game Crafter decks are distorted and don't have the same soft shading as the original. I'd like to see someone take another crack at making a nice modern reprint and get the color match and shading right.
You're killing me with the De Laurence stuff...I feel so needy. Of course every time I see one of those illustrations I go on a search for the deck...someday, it will be mine.
You always score the coolest things! 😍
The modern capitalistic definition of "thief" is those who do not have enough money to hire an army of lawyer to fight copyright laws. OTO anyone? They own the images of the Thoth tarot and yet US Games managed to banned them from publishing in English their digital remastered images from 2008. So I do not think De Laurence deserves the title "thief". I am once again green with envy. Thanks as always for sharing!
Great score and video! Thanks for sharing this! As far as the book being pirated it occurs to me that at that time the world was not so interconnected. The Pictorial Key by Rider would have been the UK version while perhaps this was printed for those in the US who didn't have access to the Rider copy.
...or, whomever checked the book out, misplaced and forgot to return it to the library, paid the late fee and it ended up in their personal library until they moved and got rid of their own books. Do you own a yellow copy of the deck? I only have the Ferrol Humphrey's mustard one that I got from Melissa.