Prefaces
I am writing a three-volume set of books and would like to have a preface for each volume and a preface for the three-volume set.
Should I label the prefaces in book one: general preface/preface, preface/preface to volume one or some other wording or combination?
Thanks for your help on the matter.
James
Top answer
The Chicago Manual of Style makes no pronouncements on this issue. They do mention prefaces to subsequent editions and give sample titles for them like "Preface to the Second Edition", and they add "whatever fits", so the implication is that you can give your prefaces whatever descriptive title you like. I'm thinking make the overall one simply "Preface" at the beginning of the first volume and call the others "Preface to Volume 1", etc.
- The Chicago Manual of Style makes no pronouncements on this issue.
- They do mention prefaces to subsequent editions and give sample titles for them like "Preface to the Second Edition", and they add "whatever fits", so the implication is that you can give your prefaces whatever descriptive title you like.
- I'm thinking make the overall one simply "Preface" at the beginning of the first volume and call the others "Preface to Volume 1", etc.
- Or maybe if the overall work has a title apart from the titles of the volumes, use that for the first one, and the volume titles for the other three.
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The Chicago Manual of Style makes no pronouncements on this issue. They do mention prefaces to subsequent editions and give sample titles for them like "Preface to the Second Edition", and they add "whatever fits", so the implication is that you can give your prefaces whatever descriptive title you like. I'm thinking make the overall one simply "Preface" at the beginning of the first vo
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