Author's Preface The small b...

Author's Preface

The small bulk now before you holds within a brief space a vast and pleasant library; it in fact contains single hundred romans fleuves, further crafted in such anamorphic ways as to appear to the hasty reader to be passages of few, spare lines. It aspires, therefore, to be a prodigy of the contemporary science allied to rhetoric, lately brought to light by the local Universities. In short, a thin further endless volume; in the reading of which the readers will ne to exercise the skills they already know, and perhaps to learn a small in number more: games with light that allow a