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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="Preface_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Preface (disambiguation)">Preface (disambiguation)</a>.</div>

<p>A <b>preface</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</span></span>) or <b>proem</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span></span>/</span></span>) is an introduction to a <a href="Book" title="Book">book</a> or other <a href="Literature" title="Literature">literary</a> work written by the work's author. An introductory essay written by a different person is a <i><a href="Foreword" title="Foreword">foreword</a></i> and precedes an author's preface. The preface often closes with acknowledgments of those who assisted in the literary work.

</p><p>It often covers the story of how the book came into being, or how the idea for the book was developed; this may be followed by thanks and acknowledgments to people who were helpful to the author during the time of writing.

</p><p>A preface is often signed (and the date and place of writing often follow the typeset signature); a foreword by another person is always signed. Information essential to the main text is generally placed in a set of explanatory notes, or perhaps in an "Introduction" that may be paginated with <a href="Arabic_numerals" title="Arabic numerals">Arabic numerals</a>, rather than in the preface. The term <i>preface</i> can also mean any preliminary or introductory statement. It is sometimes abbreviated <i>pref</i>.

</p><p>Preface comes from <a href="Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>, meaning either "spoken before" (<i>prae</i> and <i>fatia</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or "made before" (<i>prae</i> + <i>factum</i>). While the former source of the word could have preface meaning the same as <a href="Prologue" title="Prologue">prologue</a>, the latter strongly implies an introduction written before the body of the book. With this meaning of stated intention, British publishing up to at least the middle of the twentieth century distinguished between preface and introduction.

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<li><a href="Abstract_(summary)" title="Abstract (summary)">Abstract</a> (summary)</li>

<li><a href="Epigraph_(literature)" title="Epigraph (literature)">Epigraph</a></li>

<li><a href="Dispositio#Exordium" title="Dispositio">Exordium</a></li>

<li><a href="Introduction_(writing)" title="Introduction (writing)">Introduction</a></li>

<li><a href="Postface" title="Postface">Postface</a></li>

<li><a href="Preamble" title="Preamble">Preamble</a></li>

<li><a href="Prologue" title="Prologue">Prologue</a></li></ul>

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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/preface">"preface"</a>. <i>Dictionary.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 18,</span> 2013</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dpraefatio">"praefātĭo"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 18,</span> 2013</span>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li>A history of the preface in several languages is contained in: Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosystudyofpreface">The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas</a></i>. Braunschweig-Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher (Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn), 1993. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.</li>

<li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.patmcnees.com/the_difference_between_a_preface__foreword__and_introduction_52536.htm">The difference between a preface, foreword, and introduction</a></i>, patmcnees.com</li>

<li>Seán M. Williams: <i>Pretexts for Writing: German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy</i>. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2019. New Studies in the Age of Goethe, ISBN 9781684480524</li></ul>

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<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"></span> The dictionary definition of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proem" class="extiw external" title="wiktionary:proem"><i>proem</i></a> at Wiktionary</li></ul>

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<li><a href="Extra-illustration" title="Extra-illustration">Extra-illustration</a></li>

<li><a href="Fore-edge_painting" title="Fore-edge painting">Fore-edge painting</a></li>

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<li><a href="Slipcase" title="Slipcase">Slipcase</a></li>

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