＂The present volume contains critical texts of Conrad’s novel Victory, An Island Tale and of its two prefaces. The Cambridge text of the novel, apart from the coda to the final chapter, is
based on the first revised typescript, held in the Free Library of Philadelphia. The coda to the final chapter, present fragmentarily in the Philadelphia typescript, has the manuscript as its
copy-text. The copy-texts are emended to incorporate authorial revisions drawn from earlier and later authoritative documents aswell as editorial emendations to correct errors. The copy-text of
the ’Note to the First Edition’ is the manuscript, preserved at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and that for the ’Author’s Note’ is the extant revised typescript
held in a private collection＂--
