2nd 2026 300pp Scarlet Imprint 4to hardback. Profusely illustrated including colour. Sable cloth, gold foil blocking to spine and front, onlay of trump XIII Catone, with crimson endpapers, and ribbon. NEW.
 
Ltd. ed. 500 copies. The Game of Saturn is the first full length, scholarly study of the enigmatic Renaissance masterwork known as the Sola-Busca tarot. It reveals the existence of a pagan liturgical and ritual tradition active amongst members of the Renaissance elite and encoded within the deck. Beneath its beautifully decorated surface, its imagery ranges from the obscure to the grotesque; we encounter scenes of homoeroticism, wounding, immolation and decapitation redolent of hidden meanings, violent transformations and obscure rites.