'Privately printed for subscribers only' and sighed by the author, A Vision was first issued by T. Werner Laurie on 15 January 1926 (though dated 1925) in an edition of 600 copies, with brown-paper woodcuts and parchment half-binding. Because this never-reissued volume is greatly different from its 1937 revision, students and scholars who seek to understand the development of Yeats's mind and art during a most important period (1917-25) have long been laced with a serious lacuna.
