About the author
Stuart R. Kaplan is the founder of U.S. Games Systems, the tarot card publisher he established in 1968, and one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century tarot publishing and scholarship. He is known for the multi-volume Encyclopedia of Tarot and for reviving and republishing numerous historical tarot decks, including the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story (2018, U.S. Games Systems), co-written with Mary K. Greer, Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, and Melinda Boyd Parsons, is the result of years of research into the life and artistic career of Smith, illustrator of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck. Kaplan also contributed the interpretive verses for the Blue Bird Lenormand deck, an illustrated Lenormand card set with an accompanying instruction booklet. His work sits at the intersection of publishing, collecting, and scholarship, aimed at readers and collectors with a serious interest in tarot and cartomancy history rather than at casual buyers of a single deck.
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“The Blue Bird Lenormand succeeds as a polished tool for divination, effectively marrying traditional cartomancy with a refined aesthetic that invites engagement. Stuart Kaplan’s verses provide necessary interpretive scaffolding,…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Blue Bird Lenormand
“This scholarly work provides a necessary correction to the historical record, meticulously piecing together Smith’s life through the efforts of four dedicated scholars. It is lavishly illustrated, offering a visual feast that…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story
