Note: “These poems were excluded for personal reasons from [Hughes’s] Crow opus,” the printer, Alan Tarling, told the poet’s bibliographers, Keith Sagar and Stephen Tabor, in 1976, “ he (Hughes) offered them to me in March 1970. The printing and casing-in lasted until April 71 when I began sending off copies. There were 200, a hundred each going to poet (TH) and printer (me) plus 30 review or academic copies. None of mine was signed and each cost £2.25, though I gave some to friends and relatives. All the ‘academic’ copies were gratis, and said as much in an extra colophon . . . I don’t know how TH’s copies were distributed or whether or not they were signed.” Hughes obviously intended to number and sign all his 100 copies (one is inscribed “No. 100”), and started doing so; however he later forgot this protocol, and additionally numbered and signed 88 of his copies on the front free endpaper.