I've just read it myself, Helen not two weeks ago (which is why I think it is interesting you and I both were the tale). The edition is edited by Verlyn Flieger and was published in 2005 and includes Pauline Baynes' illustrations from 1967. It also has photocopies of some of the manuscript pages of the "hybrid"draft (typescript and manuscript), as well as the history of the tale's genesis in the draft introduction to The Golden Key.
There's some fascinating stuff in the essay on Faerie and Love.
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I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.
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