Table of Contents

Volume One; List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Game of Tarot; 2. The Early Stages of the Game in France and Switzerland; 3. Classic Eighteenth-century Tarot outside Italy; 4. Grosstarock; 5. Swiss Tarot, Troggen or Troccas; 6. Tarot in Lombardy; 7. Tarok-l'Hombre; 8. Tarot in Peidmont and Savoy; 9. Modern French Tarot; 10. Ferrera; 11. Bolgonese Tarocchino; 12. Minchiate; 13. Rome and Naples; 14. Sicilian Tarocchi

About the Author

John McLeod began his research into card games while studying mathematics in Cambridge in the 1970's. He is the creator and editor of www pagat.com, the primary source on the Internet for card game information. He writes regularly for The Playing Card, the journal of the International Playing-Card Society, and has visited ten European countries to learn their national Tarot games. In 2000, he was awarded the Modiano Prize for his contribution to playing-card research.

Reviews

"Pr. Sir Michael Dummett is the leading authority on the history of the Tarot and John McLeod maintains the reference Internet site on card games. They have produced an impressively thorough compendium of all the rules of the game of Tarot that are documented. Doing this, they offer all researchers interested in the subject a powerful tool for the history and spread of the game of tarot and thus a great lesson in cultural history. The rigorous structure of each chapter facilitates comparisons and offers a comprehensive sight of the subject. With its many appendices and indices it will soon be a reference book for all historians....I strongly recommend this book." - Thierry Depaulis; "A book like this can only be written after years of research, which in the present case includes experience of playing the games. The huge store of knowledge and experience thus gained makes possible the authority and understatement with which the material is laid out." - Prof. Dr. Detlef Hoffmann, Carl Von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg"