1871
Reading edition
After All, Not to Create Only. Recited by Walt Whitman on Invitation of Managers American Institute, on Opening their 40th Annual Exhibition, New York, noon, September 7, 1871 (device). Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871.
Duodecimo, beveled cloth boards, half-title, title, note, vii; pp. 24, notes.
There is also a limp cloth issue which is quite common, that was issued to be sold at the exhibition.
The poem was later published in the Transactions of the American Institute, 1871-72. Albany, 1872.