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

The Prefatory Notice and Address will explain to you the circumstances under which it was written.

From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by Hodgins, J. George (John George)

List of Amendments: Prefatory Note—omitted 'I' added—"I soon became absorbed in the ever-changing panorama."

From Legends of the Rhine by Ruland, Wilhelm

In that Prefatory Note a Dialogue on Species by Butler and an autograph letter from Charles Darwin are mentioned. 

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel

The Author was then at a great Distance from London, and the Publisher of his Work, for Reasons needless to repeat, did not think fit to print the Prefatory Discourse sent along with the Original.

From Franco-Gallia Or, An Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and Most Other Parts of Europe, Before the Loss of Their Liberties by Hotman, François