The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
A. E. Waite, 1910
Waite's own guide to the Rider-Waite-Smith deck: the history, the symbolism of the Greater Arcana, and the divinatory meaning of every card.
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First published in 1910. A. E. Waite died in 1942. English Wikisource dates this printing 1910/1922 and marks the work as public domain.
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