Austin Osman Spare Tarot Deck Kickstarter Success!
Hello There,
We're incredibly excited to announce that we have now cleared our
Kickstarter funding goal of £99,000 to produce both a
facsimile edition of Austin Osman Spare's legendary tarot
deck, alongside a new edition of our long out of print book
Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman
Spare, edited by artist and writer Jonathan Allen.
We've been completely humbled by the generosity and support of our
backers, and wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone for taking the time to
help us realise this project.
We've now decided to add a number of stretch goals to the campaign.
1st Stretch Goal: £109,000
If we hit £109,000 we’ll include an extremely
special publication with all orders of the facsimile tarot deck and Lost
Envoy book together (ie not if you pledge for just one of the items) :
The authors of the first edition of Lost Envoy were unable to
determine a single source from which Spare drew his Minor Arcana card meanings.
To our delight, in March this year American oracle-card scholar John Choma
identified this missing publication.
Those who pledged for the book and deck together will receive a facsimile
reproduction of this extremely rare 70+ page cartomancy manual. The book will be
reverse-bound alongside a facsimile of The Tarot, by S. L. MacGregor
Mathers (1888), the source from which Spare assigned his Major Arcana card
meanings. Both books will be introduced by John Choma.
As you’ve probably noticed, we won’t be revealing the title of
Spare’s source book – which is a largely forgotten text –
until publication: the revised edition of Lost Envoy will incorporate
John Choma’s findings, but we want it to be a surprise.
2nd Stretch Goal: £119,000
At £119,000 We’ll incorporate a high-quality
cardboard box designed to hold the tarot deck, Lost Envoy (both HB and PB
editions), and the bonus publication.
