Question about electron gun design

[Rinehart]

I've come across a curious statement in Tube: The Invention of Television by D.E. & M.J. Fisher. Describing Zworykin's visit to the Belin Laboratory in Paris, they mention that he was shown a new CRT using a high vacuum and electrostatic deflection. (They use the word "steering," but since they make a distinction between that and focusing, this is presumably what they meant.) It had not yet been made practical, but Zworykin saw how it might be: "[by] relocating the electric steering field, placing it closer to the electron source than they had it. This would allow him to steer the beam before it was accelerated by high voltage to gain brightness, and this would give him much better control [over the direction of the beam.] He would accelerate the beam after it had already been steered in the proper direction; then the acceleration would not affect the steering, so he wouldn't have to worry about losing focus." (p.169)
This suggests that he would place the deflection plates in between the first and second anodes, but I have never seen a diagram or a photograph of an electron gun so constructed, and even the diagram of a kinescope tube on p. 185 doesn't look to be constructed that way. Does anyone know what this might mean?