Marcus Katz - Secrets of the Waite-Smith Tarot: The True Story of the World’s Most Popular Tarot

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Secrets of the Waite-Smith Tarot: The True Story of the Worlds Most Popular Tarot 2015 by Marcus Katz and T ali Goodwin.

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E-book ISBN: 9780738744360

Book design by Bob Gaul
Cover design by Kevin R. Brown

Cover images: High Priestess and 6 of Swords from the Rider-Waite Tarot deck used with permission of
U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT. 1971 by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. Further reproduction;
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Illustrations from the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck , known also as the Rider Tarot and the Waite Tarot , reproduced by permission of U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902 USA. Copyright 1971 by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck is a registered trademark of U.S. Games Systems, Inc.

Illustrations of Majors, Minors and Court cards taken from the Pictorial Key and the PAM-A deck 1909, used with permission from private collection.

Illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith, courtesy of Koretaka Eguchi. ()

Image of Shakespeares Heroines Calendar , courtesy of Mark Samuels Lasner Collection. ()

Images of the Rose Cross Lamen, courtesy of James Clark. ()

Images by Edward Burne-Jones, licensed from the Trustees of the British Museum. ()

Image of Pamela Colman Smith by Alphaeus Cole, courtesy of Stuart Kaplan. ()

Image of Pamela Colman Smith in Gillette Castle, used with permission from Gillette Castle State Park. ()

Images of the membership roll of the Golden Dawn, licensed from the Library of Freemasonry, London. ()

Images from the Gypsy Tarot, courtesy of Nora Huszka. ()

Images from Smallhythe Place, licensed from National Trust Images. ()

Illustrations from the Sola Busca Tarot Deck, Wolfgang Mayer edition, issued by Giordano Berti and used with permission. ()

Photographs of Ellen Terrys Cottage, licensed from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. ()

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Dedications

To C.C., B.C., and Mr. B.E. (Who Guard the Axis).

To my brothers Michael T. Goodwin and Geoffrey C. Goodwin.

In Memory of Smudge the cat, Beth Cat, Snuffles, and all those cats who abide with us.

And As Ever, Above All, this work is dedicated to
Anistita Argenteum Astrum
The Priestess of the Silver Star
She whose light leads the way to the Arcanum Arcanorum,
The Secret of Secrets.

Vos Vos Vos Vos.
V.V.V.V.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Susannah Mayor, National Trust Warden at Smallhythe Place, and the National Trust for permitting us access to their archives throughout the research for this book. We would also like to acknowledge Susannah in pointing us to Winchelsea through Pamelas sketch of Tower Cottage. This led to the trip that revealed some of the more astonishing examples of real-world models for what has become the worlds most popular tarot deck.

We would also like to thank the staff at the V & A Theatre archives for their assistance and considerable patience whilst we made our way through hundreds of folders and thousands of images to discover just two important photographs. The staff at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale University) and others have assisted the research and production of this book.

The staff at the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London, have provided kind assistance and access to their archives for much of the Golden Dawn material in this present book.

In particular we would like to personally thank two Japanese collectors who have provided materials from their personal collections, and Kenji Ishimatsu in particular for also organising a collection of scans of the original and earliest editions of the Waite-Smith deck from various collectors around the world. The card images used throughout this book are from that collection, with permission and our thanks. Koretaka Eguchi provided us high-resolution scans from his substantial collection of related Colman Smith materials that include the Green Sheaf magazines.

Giordano Berti provided images of the Sola Busca deck from the Wolfgang Mayer edition (1988) and permission. This limited edition deck is a beautiful reproduction of the Sola Busca.

Stuart Kaplan, Bobbie Bensaid, and Lynn Araujo of U.S. Games Systems kindly provided a scan of a newly acquired portrait of Pamela and gave us permission for usage, which we acknowledge and for which we give our thanks.