What makes The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith stand out is how much the book emphasizes the creative process and treats the cards like art.

Smith's artful rendition of The Fool in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck is often used to represent Tarot in general. Early classical versions of The Fool card, however, portray quite a different character ...

The oldest surviving set of tarot cards, the Visconti-Sforza deck, dates to 16th-century ... mystic Arthur Edward Waite commissioned Pamela Colman Smith, AKA Pixie, to illustrate the widely ...