Waite's "Second Tarot"

Here's an exciting find from Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin — a rare and undiscovered tarot collaboration from A.E. Waite and John B. Trinick — along with information about how you can help get it published.

This is from Marcus and Tali's page at Indiegogo:

Help Us Publish A. E. Waite's "Second Tarot" Images

After extensive research, we are in a position to publish beautiful and evocative images commissioned by A. E. Waite between 1917-23 towards a second set of Tarot illustrations – but we need your help.

With your assistance we can publish a book of Tarot images which were designed by Waite a decade after his work with Pamela Colman Smith on what is now the most "popular" Tarot deck in the world – images that have been rarely seen outside a few private collectors or followers of Waite's work.

We have access & licensing agreement in principle to publish original illustrations by J. B. Trinick towards the 22 Major Arcana and one additional "path" image, and extra variant designs, sketches and Waite's own commentary on their profound significance. We would like to include as many of them as possible in a book publication.

There are costs for high quality photography and licensing. This comes to approximately £150 GBP per image (about $250 USD).

The Book

With your help, we can publish a book of high quality images, relatively quickly, prior to December 31st 2011. At present a set of cards is not possible (due to additional laminating and production costs and a higher licensing fee) so we plan on reproducing the images with explanatory text and our additional research into the lives of J. B. Trinick and others involved in the production of these glorious Tarot illustrations.

Marcus Katz will also include in the publication Waite's previously unpublished text which accompanies the images and will offer an explanation of how the images fit onto the Tree of Life in Waite's "hidden" set of correspondences.