The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination

About this book

A familiar tarot deck appears under a less familiar name. In The Illustrated Key to the Tarot, the figures drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the Rider-Waite cards accompany an exposition of the Major and Minor Arcana, their symbols and divinatory meanings.

Chicago occult publisher L. W. de Laurence issued the work in 1918 using material taken from A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot without properly crediting its author or artist. Readers will find card meanings, methods of laying out a spread and a discussion of the supposed secret tradition behind the pictures. Its history also exposes the unscrupulous side of the early occult-book trade.