I was interested to learn about the scholarship on Salome that suggests that the woman's face in the moon is possibly Beardsley's depiction of Wilde. References of this kind seem to add another dimension of meaning-making beyond how illustrations interact with the texts to which they are set. Since the author-illustrator relationship is often collaboarative, it is natural that illustrations shuld sometimes contain signs of communication between the author and illustrator, over and above any relation to the text itself. Beardsley depicting Wilde himself is an extreme example of this - it is case where the illustrator not only communicates with the authour but actually inserts him into the work itself. The fact that Beardsley chooses to cast Wilde into a role presented in the play as feminine opens up an entirely new lane of interpretation regarding what Beardsley intends to convey in this particular illustration. I am curious to learn about any other examples of illustrated books from this period in which the illustrator either a) uses his/her illustrations as a means of communication between him/herself and the author, or b) incorporates him/herself or the author into the illustrations themselves.