The Original Rider Waite Tarot Deck: 78 beautifully illustrated cards and instructional booklet

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A.E. Waite Pamela Colman Smith

The Original Rider Waite Tarot Deck

78 beautifully illustrated cards and instructional booklet

A.E. Waite, Pamela Colman Smith

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Rider & Co
23 July 1999

Tarot; Miscellaneous items

The renowned Original Rider Waite Tarot card deck

The Original Rider Waite Tarot is the most popular and widely used tarot card deck in the world. With 78 cards and an instructional booklet, it is perfect for people beginning to connect with Tarot, and those more experienced readers.

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* The Original Rider Waite Tarot is the most popular and widely used tarot card deck in the world.

First issued in 1910, each card is rich in symbolism and striking in its design.

Divided into the Major and Minor Arcanas, the cards still have the original design by Pamela Colman Smith, carried out in accordance with A. E. Waite's instructions.

An instructional booklet is included, explaining the tarot card meanings and how to use the cards for divination, with an introduction by Tarot expert Stuart R. Kaplan.

Whether novice or expert, The Original Rider Waite Tarot is the only tarot card deck you need - feel the heritage, history and connection all at once...

By: A.E. Waite
Illustrated by: Pamela Colman Smith
Imprint: Rider & Co
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 124mm, Width: 71mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 248g
ISBN: 9780712670579
ISBN 10: 0712670572
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 23 July 1999
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

A.E. Waite (Author) Arthur Edward Waite was the designer and co-creator of the now famous Rider Waite Tarot deck. An American-born British poet and scholarly mystic, his strong interest in all esoteric matters - divination, magic, Kabbalism, alchemy and Freemasony - led to him penning a number of books. These include the Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic and A New Encyclopedia of Freemasony. Pamela Colman Smith (Illustrator) Pamela Colman Smith was born in England to American parents. Her childhood years were spent between London, New York and Kingston, Jamaica. She became a theatrical designer, even collaborating with the notable W.B. Yeats on stage designs. She was an illustrator mainly of books, pamphlets and posters too. Under the guidance of A. E. Waite, she undertook a series of seventy-eight allegorical paintings described by Waite as a 'rectified' tarot pack. The designs, published in the same year by William Rider and Son, exemplify the mysticism, ritual, imagination, fantasy and deep emotions of the artist.