Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story

This biography and catalogue raisonne was built from archival research into Pamela Colman Smith's own life and surviving work, establishing directly what she actually drew for the 1909 Rider deck and tracing the documented decades in which her authorship went uncredited in favor of Arthur Edward Waite's name alone. That archival correction of a specific, documented historical injustice is real evidentiary work, not a claim about the press that issued the book. Use it for facts about Smith's authorship of the deck's imagery and the history of her being uncredited; it is a specialist study of her specifically, not a general history of the tarot.