My RWS hate/hate relationship

I'm under the impression that RWS was not so a success in Waite's or Pixie's lifetime. In 1919 a man wrote a letter to the Editor of The Occult Review, saying

"Sir- It has occurred to me that it might be either intersting or useful to recall your reader's attention to the Tarot Cards, which are not as well known as I would like , even among Theosophical students, while in some cases, in which poeple are interested in occult matters, I have found the said cards unknown". (Feb. issue).

This gentleman spoke of RWS as he later reffered to Mr Waite's interpretation. Anyway it took 10 years for William Rider & Son to reprint PKT. Not a hot cake

Yeah but it doesn't matter if you're an unknown fish, if you're the only one in the pond. Any interested parties have gotta come and see you ..

And I suppose the few who were interested bought them as a curiosity and played parlor games with friends, who bought them and took them home and played parlor games ......