This is what Crowley considered his "Magnum Opus".

  Printers in England were not being very receptive during this period.

  So Crowley had to search other countries for a printer.

  Of course you can not stop The Master Therion, so France seemed

  like the place to have them printed.  There are many stories on the

  printing and variations of this book. It seemed to be printed first in

  four separate parts. Then a "Subscribers Edition" was printed in a

  8VO Hardback. The version with four separate parts had a color

  plate that the Subscribers Edition did not. It was also bound in

  "wraps". This was not something that Crowley would normally do,

  especially to a title with importance like this. It is rumored that he

  was unhappy with the version in wraps and had many of them

  disassembled and rebound in a very nice hard cover. This would

  also mean that the "color plate" would be intact. I had heard many

  variations on this story, but never could get my hands on a copy that

  seemed to be of the detail that 666 would have put into such a book.

  Until know:)  I have recently found a copy that seems to be one that he

 may have had rebound. The quality is unique and all the way down to

 the labels on the front cover being from the original "wraps" seems  to

 make sense. One thought had been that he had them cut down to the

 Subscribers Edition, but there are many reasons why you can  see this

 is not the case. If you have them sitting side by side, they were definitely

 two different printings.