prefatory

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On Growth and Form opens with a classic D'Arcy "Prefatory Note": "This book of mine has little need of preface, for indeed it is 'all preface' from beginning to end."

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2017

Richard II. revived, and altered from Shakespear, under the title of the Sicilian Usurper; a Tragedy, with a Prefatory Epistle, in Vindication of the Author, occasioned by the Prohibition of this Play on the Stage.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus

Prefatory and explanatory—The voyage out—The sentimental—The actual —The oblivious—The medley—Practical joking—An unwelcome companion— American patriotism—The first view—The departure.

From The Englishwoman in America by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

I will then shut up all this, being but an Extract of what is in the Prefatory part of the Original.

From A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Casas, Bartolomé de las

I close by quoting from the Prefatory Note to Volume I: "If my work shall prove satisfactory to Congress and the country, I will feel compensated for my time and effort."

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 1 (of 3) of Volume 10. by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)