Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Singapore: Lotus Library Publications, [c.1911]....
Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Singapore: Lotus Library Publications, [c.1911]. 4to, org. cloth-backed boards; 17 black and white illus. and decorative images to margin. Limited edition, no. 277 [of 1000]. A sinuous and exciting Eastern take on Fitzgerald's translation of the poem. There is an intriguing bibliographic point on one of the plates. There is a modification to a peacock feather on an illustration of a woman. Some have this black and some have decoration on the feather. Looking beneath the plain black dot reveals the image beneath. It is possible some of these were modified for a more purient audience, as the positioning of the feather suggests the genitalia of the woman. A peacock feather is used elsewhere to conceal the genitalia of a male demon arising from an opium pipe.