The Garden of Kama. And other Love Lyrics from India

London: William Heinemann, 1914.

Later edition, first published 1901. 8vo. pp. vii + [174]. Bound in dark green half-calf, spine discoloured to brown, with four gilt flower ornaments to spine, gilt titling, top edge gilt. Chip to calf at front hinge near top of spine, also at head and foot of spine. This edition is without the Byam Shaw illustrations.

Violet Nicolson, also known as Adela Florence Nicolson, attempted to pass these verses off as translations of various poets, but this claim soon fell under suspicion. Her poems often used imagery and symbols from the poets of the North-West Frontier of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. She was among the most popular romantic poets of the Edwardian era. Her poems are typically about unrequited love and loss and often, the death that followed such an unhappy state of affairs. Prone to depression since childhood, Nicolson committed suicide by poisoning herself and at the age of 39.