First American edition, marked "Author's Edition"on verso of title. viii, 328 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original burnt orange, blue edges. Shelfweat to head and foot of spine. Internally Fine. Wise 32, "Why the book was published under the above title is difficult to say. Possibly...the publisher looked to excite a larger sale of the book by distinctly showing that the most notorious poem was not excluded...".

Item #61327

This book was suppressed by Moxon, the English publisher, but still has their name on this American Issue. With a small printed review slip quoting the London Examiner, laid in.