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

Among the publications printed by James, while the apprenticeship lasted, were Stoddard's Treatise on Conversion, Stone's Short Catechism and A Prefatory Letter about Psalmody.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

Prefatory Note.—It is a common mistake to suppose that the present generation frowns upon the literary achievements of the descriptive reporter who chronicles the great deeds of athletes, oarsmen, pugilists, and sportsmen generally.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890 by Various

Prefatory note Part I.—The life history of the bison I. Discovery of the species II.

From The Extermination of the American Bison by Hornaday, William Temple

Prefatory Poem 'Free of the ten and four' is an error I cannot now correct, without more rewriting than I have a mind for.

From Responsibilities and other poems by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)