To enter, within the limits of this short treatise, upon any long inquiry into
the History of Cards is utterly out of the question; and I shall therefore
confine myself to examining briefly into what relates to their most ancient
form, the Tarot, or Tarocchi Cards, and to giving, as clearly and concisely as possible, instructions which will enable my readers to utilise them for
fortune-telling, to which they are far better adapted, from the greater number and variety of their combinations, than the ordinary cards. I shall also enter somewhat into their occult and Qabalistical significations.