 The Craft was Prior’s third book-length manuscript that failed to make it into print. His manuscript on Barth had died the death before the war, and his The Theology of the Church of Scotland was a casualty when the Priors’ Christchurch house caught fire in 1949—the book’s remains, 163 charred pages of his handwriting, are in the Bodleian Library. (Scottish theology nevertheless remained ‘part of the mulch that nourished his work’, Mary Prior said.) The Craft survives intact in the Bodleian, except for a few missing pages. Some parts of it were published posthumously, under the title The Doctrine of Propositions and Terms, but much of this fascinating manuscript remains unpublished.