€ 19,95
This is the Spanish-language pocket edition of the Rider-Waite deck that became the foundation for nearly every tarot deck made since. The cards reproduce the original colours and the brown back of the first print run from 1909. The 96-page guidebook is written by Rachel Pollack and Johannes Fiebig.
For anyone who wants the original deck as it appeared in 1909, small enough to carry anywhere.
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Hundreds of tarot decks have been published since 1909, but almost all of them build on this one. The Rider-Waite deck established the visual language that still dominates tarot today: figurative scenes across all 78 cards, including the minor arcana. This pocket edition reproduces the original colours and the distinctive brown back of the first print run.
This is the Spanish-language version, published by AGM AGMüller. The 96-page guidebook is written by Rachel Pollack and Johannes Fiebig, two of the most widely read tarot authors, entirely in Spanish.
The format is compact: 57 x 89 mm. That is smaller than a standard tarot card and makes the deck easy to carry. The brown pebble back is a deliberate reproduction of the very first 1909 print, not the later versions with different colours or backs that appeared in the decades that followed.
Those familiar with the history of this deck know that the colours in later reprints sometimes shifted. This edition goes back to the source.
The 96 pages are written by Rachel Pollack and Johannes Fiebig. Pollack wrote '78 Degrees of Wisdom', which has been a standard reference for decades. Fiebig is known for his work with AGM AGMüller. Together they provide detailed instructions that are immediately usable, in Spanish.
The cards were drawn in 1909 by Pamela Colman Smith, under the direction of Arthur Edward Waite. Smith studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn around 1903. Waite was an occultist, prolific writer and Grand Master of the same order.
Together they created the deck that forms the basis of almost all tarot imagery developed since. Pamela Colman Smith was long uncredited as a maker; her name does not appear on early editions. Modern reprints, including this one, list her explicitly as co-author alongside Waite.
Is this deck usable if you do not speak Spanish?
The guidebook is entirely in Spanish. The cards themselves carry no text, so the imagery works in any language. Consulting the guidebook does require knowledge of Spanish.
How does this edition differ from a standard Rider-Waite deck?
This is a pocket format (57 x 89 mm) with the original colours and brown back of the first 1909 print run. Many later editions use different colour versions or backs. This edition also includes a Spanish-language guidebook by Pollack and Fiebig, which is not part of most standard editions.
| ISBN | 9783038194651 |
| Taal | Spanish |
| SKU | 1540-0000 |
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