A.E. Waite Tarot Mini Blue Edition

Colors of the cards according to the first edition from 1909. Backside: Blue Rosy Cross The blue backside and a beautiful rosy-cross refer to the membership of A.E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith in the rosy crucian order of the Golden Dawn . This edition consists of a folding tuckbox with an instruction booklet of 32 pages in different language editions and three different card sizes: Standard = 70 x 120 mm; English, Spanish & Portuguese Pocket = 57 x 89 mm; English, Spanish & Portuguese Mini = 44 x 74 mm; English This bestselling edition by Koenigsfurt-Urania & AGM-Urania from Germany and Switzerland has been published for more than 20 years now and highly acclaimed for the unsurpassed reprint of the colors of the historic cards of Arthur E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith. The cards were drawn in 1909 by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of Arthur Edward Waite. Smith's vibrant drawings transformed the standard tarot deck. Pamela Colman Smith was born February 16, 1878, in Middlesex, England to American parents, Smith's childhood years were spent between London, New York, and Kingston, Jamaica. During her teens, she traveled throughout England with the theatre company of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. Thereafter, she began formal art training at Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, graduating i