Although issued posthumously, the signed limited Variorum edition contains limitation sheets that were signed by Yeats before his death. Edited by Peter Allt and Russell Alspach. First edition, trade issue. Advance Uncorrected proof. Tall and thick octavo. Unbound sewn signatures laid into the finished dustwrapper. Publication date stamped on the title page "Oct 28, 1957". Limited to 825 numbered copies containing the signature of Yeats on sheets signed before his death. Specially printed on paper produced by the Oxford Paper Company. Yeats revised his work frequently and this volume presents the variations along with comments by the poet and others.
