A Preliminary Note on the Text of A Vision (1937)

Abstract

It is common knowledge that the 1925 version of A Vision was extensively revised for the second edition of 1937: as Allan Wade noted, “ so much which appeared in the first version… has been omitted and so much new material added, that this is almost a new book.” ¹ However, an atypical error in the Wade/Alspach Bibli-ography ² has heretofore obscured our awareness that the 1937 version exists in three different states and that the 1962 London edition apparently is the best available text. This note, necessarily a combination of fact and conjecture, is intended only as a prolegomenon for the needed definitive edition which will hopefully be undertaken in the near future.