Bede wrote a preface for the work, in which he dedicates it to Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria.

Bede acknowledged his correspondents in the preface to the Historia Ecclesiastica ; he was in contact with Daniel, the Bishop of Winchester, for information about the history of the church in Wessex, and also wrote to the monastery at Lastingham for information about Cedd and Chad.

Bellarmine wrote the preface to the new Sixto-Clementine Vulgate.

In the book's preface, Heisenberg wrote:

She wrote the preface for On War and by 1834 had published several of his books.

That she wrote the Autobiography, and that preface, and the Poems, and the Plague-spot Bacilli, we are not permitted to doubt.

Many dismissed this as a joke ; but, in his preface to the second edition, Butler wrote:

In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, a parodic adaptation of the Liber conformitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Rinonico of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule.

Some years later, he wrote a forcible preface to a translation of the New Testament issued at his command by his private secretary, Hieronymus Emser, as an offset to Luther's version.

Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of W. N. P. Barbellion's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919.

Coleridge described how he wrote the poem in the preface to his collection of poems, Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep, published in 1816:

In an interview, Smith stated that Kurnaz's family has contacted her and that she wrote a short preface for the book that he was writing.

In 1850, in the preface to his Kashubian-Russian dictionary, Florian Ceynowa wrote about the language of Baltic Slavic peoples:

In the preface, Ramułt wrote:

In a footnote to the preface of Blaze, dated 30 January 2007, King wrote of Rage: " Now out of print, and a good thing.

" For his part, MacDonald wrote an admiring preface to Night Shift, and even had his famous character, Travis McGee, reading Cujo in one of the last McGee novels and Pet Sematary in the last McGee novel, The Lonely Silver Rain.

On 2 January 1897 Gladstone wrote to Francis Hirst on being unable to write a preface to a book on liberalism: " I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism ".

On the other hand, Luther wrote of Melanchthon, in the preface to Melanchthon's Commentary on the Galatians ( 1529 ), " I had to fight with rabble and devils, for which reason my books are very warlike.

In the preface to La Comédie Humaine he wrote: " Christianity, and especially Catholicism, being a complete repression of man's depraved tendencies, is the greatest element in Social Order.

" To arrive at the truth ", he wrote in the preface to Le Lys dans la vallée, " writers use whatever literary device seems capable of giving the greatest intensity of life to their characters.

Her lover Jean Paulhan wrote the preface as if the author were unknown to him.

Jean Paulhan, who was the author's lover and the person to whom she wrote Story of O in the form of love letters, wrote the preface, " Happiness in Slavery ".

Interestingly, in the preface, Paulhan goes out of his way to appear as if he does not know who wrote the book.

In the early 1990s, Masson had been engaged to University of Michigan feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon, who wrote the preface to his A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century.

In the opening preface, Harris praises the then-new procedure of Transactional Analysis ( TA, or as Harris often refers to it, P-A-C ) as a major innovation addressing the slow process and limited results that he and other psychiatric practitioners believed was characteristic of conventional psychiatry.

The ethos Erasmus sets forth within The Education of a Christian Prince ( Institutio principis christiani ), similar to the Isocratean manner of setting himself apart from potentially incompetent teachers, he shows a certain disdain “ against the sophists .” Actually referring to Isocrates, Erasmus, in the preface of Christian Prince and addressing Charles the prince, he states, “ or he was a sophist, instructing some petty king or rather tyrant, and both were pagans ”.

The English physician and philosopher, Sir Thomas Browne, specifically employed the word encyclopaedia for the first time in English as early as 1646 in the preface to the reader to describe his Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, a series of refutations of common errors of his age.

R A Rebholz in his preface to Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Complete Poems, comments, ' the problem of determining which poems Wyatt wrote is as yet unsolved '.

William Blackstone, when writing his Commentaries on the Laws of England, noted in his preface that " of all the earlier schemes for digesting the Laws of England the most natural and scientific, as well as the most comprehensive, appeared to be that of Sir Matthew Hale in his posthumous Analysis of the Law ".

In 1650, Lilly wrote a preface to Sir Christopher Heydon's An Astrological Discourse with Mathematical Demonstrations, a defence of astrology written about 1608 which was first published posthumously, largely at the expense of Elias Ashmole.

The way to these studies had been pointed out in the preface to Kugler's Handbook of Italian Painting by Sir Charles Eastlake, who had intended pursuing the subject himself.

Even before then, in 1628, Sir Edward Coke acknowledged in his preface to the First Part of the Institutes of the Law of England that Law French had almost ceased to be a spoken tongue.

He began his printing business sometime before 1516, for in his preface to the undated Liber Assisarum he announced the forthcoming publication of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert's Abbreviamentum librorum legum Anglorum, dated 1516.

The first reference to the work was made in the preface to Sir John Harrington's translation of Orlando Furioso ( 1591 ) in reaction to Puttenham's view of translators as mere versifiers.

… Before which is prefixed a preface … by Sir H. Yelverton ,’ London, 1670.

The New Statistical Account of Scotland ( vol. II ) says that the present town of Lauder existed as a kirk-town in the time of David I ( 1124 – 53 ), and Sir J. D. Marwick says, in his preface to the Records of Convention, that the present town of Lauder existed in the latter half of the twelfth century.

An epitaph by him on Elizabeth, countess of Huntingdon, is given in Wilford's ‘ Memorials .’ Among his papers was found ‘ The History of the most unfortunate Prince, King Edward II, with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites, Gaveston and Spencer ,’ which was published with a preface attributed to Sir James Harrington in 1680.

He also wrote a preface to the Report on the Proceedings of the Board of General Officers on their Examination into the Conduct of Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope, in which he gave an apology for the battle of Prestonpans.

Translated by H. Havelock with preface by Sir Charles Elliot.

The results of these studies appeared in the monography Le Tonus des Muscles striés ( 1937 ) with Nicolae Ionescu-Siseşti, Oskar Sager and Arthur Kreindler, with a preface by Sir Charles Sherrington.

Alden, Sir W. Besant etc., with preface by C. J. C.

Memoirs of Lord Anglesey were published by Sir P. Pett in 1693, but contain little biographical information and were repudiated as a mere imposture by Sir John Thompson, his son-in-law, in his preface to Lord Anglesey's State of the Government in 1694.

In the author's preface, Paton took pains to record that apart from passing references to Jan Smuts and Sir Ernest Oppenheimer all his characters were fictional.

In his preface Weever calls it the " first trew Oldcastle ," perhaps on account of the fact that Shakespeare's character Falstaff first appeared as ' Sir John Oldcastle '.

This is how Sir Walter Scott describes it in his preface letter to The Death of the Laird's Jock in August 1831.

Having made his name first known as a writer by an idyll in hexameters, Die Treibjagd ( 1820 ), and several short stories, his literary reputation was first established by the historical romance Walladmor ( 1823 ), which was published as being " freely translated from the English of Sir Walter Scott, with a preface by Willibald Alexis ".

* Sir William Jones's Ode and the 1738 preface to Milton's Areopagitica