According to a 16th-century note on the flyleaf, the first 20 folios are lost.: 3.
He erased it and started anew on the second flyleaf as reproduced above.
The first leaf is a flyleaf taken from another volume.
The free half of the end paper is called a flyleaf.
You can read a piece on the flyleaf which gives you a synopsis of the story.
After an interval, my attention was drawn to the small print at the foot of the very last page—almost a flyleaf of the report.
This quotation typifies not only a clogged style but also a persistent conflation throughout the book of 'drama' and 'theatre' (and 'drama and theatre' are 'genres', according to the flyleaf).
Wilson thought that it had been discarded when redundant and used as a flyleaf for the volume, idem.
