15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 14
 

14

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.
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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 15th Mar, 2019

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