The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Title page of the 1911 edition
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| Author | Arthur Edward Waite |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Divinatory tarot |
| Published | 1911 |
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot is A. E. Waite's guide to divinatory tarot, published in England in 1911 in conjunction with the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Waite was very concerned with the accuracy of the symbols he used for his deck, and he did much research into the traditions, interpretations, and history behind the cards.
The book (which Waite himself called "a monograph") consists of three parts.
In 1918, an American author, L. W. de Laurence, published an exact facsimile copy of the book under the title The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination, Illustrating the Greater and Lesser Arcana, without giving any credit to Waite.
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