Almost every modern encounter with the Goetia runs through a single small book published in 1904.
Its title page reads The Book of the Goetia or, The Lesser Key of Solomon the King: From Numerous Manuscripts in Hebrew, Latin, French and English, and it was issued at Foyers in Inverness by the Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth. The translation and editorial work were Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers's. The publication was Aleister Crowley's, and Crowley supervised it, supplied prefatory matter of his own, and gave it a prominence in his later output that it would not otherwise have had. The two men were by then estranged, and the circumstances of the publication have been argued over ever since.
Three things about this edition should be held in mind by anyone using it.
It is a Golden Dawn document as much as a Solomonic one. Mathers read the material through the correspondences his order used everywhere else, and the framing reflects that.
Its spellings are not always defensible. Joseph Peterson, working from the manuscripts, reports that the edition contains numerous alternate spellings of the spirit names for which he can find no manuscript support. Where a modern book gives an unusual form, the 1904 text is the first place to check.
And it fixed the canon. The seventy-two names as most people know them, in the order most people know them, are the 1904 order and the 1904 spellings, reproduced without attribution across a century of derivative books, games, novels and albums. That is a considerable achievement in transmission. It is not the same thing as an accurate text.