Tarot aficionados will be pleased to see that the card backs have been restored to their original design of Tudor roses and lilies in pale blue.
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The foreward by Liz Green is certainly a nice addition to the accompanying LWB (although a slightly larger print type would have made me a lot happier!). I purchased these for public use at an exhibition I am attending, as I didn’t want to use MY cards. The Original Rider Waite Tarot is the most popular and widely used tarot card deck in the world. Divinitory Meanings: Dark man, friendly, countryman, generally married, honest and conscientious. page 92-93, 108,126. They are rather like tracing paper overlays and were used to determine the distribution of colours on a black and white line drawings. FAST & FREE. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote.
These are not poor quality "reproductions of reproductions" but reproductions made to look just like the ORIGINALS. First issued in 1910, each card is rich in symbolism and striking in its design. The deck and book set comes complete and in full-color with original Tudor Rose back design, Celtic Cross divinatory chart, and The Key to the Tarot by Arthur Waite. pages 24-26. Waite (Author), Pamela Colman Smith (Illustrator) 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,961 ratings I purchased these for public use at an exhibition I am attending, as I didn’t want to use MY cards. In the forward, Liz Greene talks about the images of the Tarot being of an archetypal, rather than a mysterious or "occult" nature. The new cards (universal deck) are the touched up reproductions and are therefore clearer and brighter in colors and forms. Rider Waite Tarot Deck - Standard
With this edition you have that wonderful feeling of seeing the cards in their historical context.
The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack by A.E.
She became a theatrical designer, even collaborating with the notable W.B. Many lovers of the Marseille tradition will affirm that a warts and all reproduction of the worn down woodcut is just as rewarding as a pristine modern rendition. Take for example the Queen of Pentacles: The shading is so dark that the hare in the lower right and the nymph on the side of the throne (both VERY important emblems) are almost completely obscured. The text on the Page of Cups appears central, whereas on the original US Games edition (not the later ones with typeface fonts) the calligraphy was famously off centre.
12 brand new from £16.26 Ace of Cups: The water is beneath and on it are water lilies; the hand comes out of the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams are pouring; a dove, bearing in its bill a cross marked host, descends to place the wafer in the cup, the dew of water is falling on all sides.
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. This would be early enough if they were only intended for people to try their luck at gambling, or at seeing the future, if they contain the deep intimations of secret doctrine, then the fourteenth century again is early enough, or at least in this respect we are getting as much as we can." But, it is impossible to look at the card and recall this important detail. Waite presents two spreads - the classic ten card Celtic Cross, as well as what Waite calls a Thirty-Five Card Spread, which acts as a followup to the Celtic Cross reading. Lovers of the Rider will find a similar connection here.
2 The Tarot Companion: A Portable Guide to Reading the Cards for Yourself and Others Diary Book The Cheap Fast. I waffled a bit between this one and U.S. Games's Smith-Waite Centennial edition,which has that great "old" feel, but at the end of the day, I keep going back to this one.
THE KEY TO THE TAROT explains the history and symbolism of the cards and gives instructions on how to use them for purposes of divination. Divinitory Meanings: House of the true heart, joy, content, abode; nourishment, abundance, fertility, holy table, happiness; Reversed: House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution. The deck and book set comes complete and in full-color with original Tudor Rose back design, Celtic Cross divinatory chart, and The Key to the Tarot by Arthur Waite. Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings using a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. Measurements: 2.76 x 4.72 inches, or 70 x 120 mm.
The images are less refined and grainier but the imperfections dont seem to matter.
Although the US Games Rider Waite deck is itself a clone it remains the most accurate reproduction available of this deck in what would have been its original colour livery.
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