Grand Tarot Belline
Edmond Billaudot
France
Art Medium:
Watercolour, pen and ink.
Description:
The Grand Tarot Belline is a unique pen and ink deck drawn by Edmond Billaudot (known as Magus Edmond) and originally published in 1863. Marcel Belline discovered his deck and sold the printing rights to Grimaud. The originals are in the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris. Grimaud began publishing the deck in 1966 and it has been reprinted a number of times. Cards are gilt edged.