On Famous Women

This is a digital watermark added by the scanning service. It indicates that the physical volume—a 19th-century second edition held in a research library—was digitized to make it accessible online.

This page is a blank flyleaf. In bookbinding, flyleaves are the empty pages at the very beginning or end of a book that protect the main text. Because this page contains no historical text or annotations, it serves only as a physical transition between the title page and the start of the preface or main body of the work.