BlueLotus said:
Here are a few images of the
Grimaud which is sadly
out of print.
As other people have already noted in their posts to this thread, Grimaud's Tarot de Marseille deck is alive and well, and in print.
However, I'd like to point out [because I don't have a life
] that the
particular edition of the Grimaud deck whose card scans are located at the link above is out of print. The edition on the scans is a French-cardtitles pre-1980 deck, while the modern day French-cardtitles Grimaud deck indicates 1980 copyright on the cards.
The modern day French-cardtitles Grimaud has dark blues that are very blue, so blue that you can barely see the crustacean in the Moon card. In contrast, the pre-1980 Grimaud has a less blue dark blue -- just as in the case of the 1930 images.
For less blue dark blues in a French-cardtitles Grimaud deck, I would recommend a pre-1980 Grimaud or the (also out-of-print) Dusserre photoreproduction of the 1930 Marteau Grimaud deck.
Modern day English cardtitles or bilingual French/English-cardtitles Grimaud decks might have the less blue dark blues too; however, I leave it to owners of such decks to chime in with their observations.
Is it a coincidence that this change occurred circa 1980, the 50th anniversary of the Marteau Grimaud deck? As this isn't a change for the better, could copyright protection have something to do with it?
