原文 (英语)

By Charles Reade To T. Taylor, Esq., my friend, and coadjutor in the comedy of “Masks and Faces,” to whom the reader owes much of the best matter in this tale: and to the memory of Margaret Woffington, falsely summed up until to-day, this “Dramatic Story” is inscribed by CHARLES READE.— LONDON. Dec. 15, 1852.