The following section contains mirrored show-through from the front side of the leaf, transcribed as it would appear if right-reading.

THE PROPOSAL

Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others, who are willing to Subscribe

towards the Printing of the Natural History of Staffordshire?

in a new and useful? Method.

WHEREAS Robert Plot, LL.D. LL.D.: Doctor of Laws, Keeper: The head curator or director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, has undertaken? to publish? the Natural History of Staffordshire?
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... list of subscription conditions ...?

The following paragraph is right-reading and constitutes the primary intended content of this side of the page, acting as an update to the subscribers.

The Publisher, finding that his plans for faster progress have been frequently frustrated due to his own illness and the death of two of the workmen—who, though very slow, were highly skilled in this specialized trade—now finds himself, this autumn, working at a much more industrious pace. He has realized that the more workmen he employs, the sooner the task will be completed; therefore, he has now joined with him four of our own workmen and two others who are very expert in this type of business. Furthermore, he has arranged to print the entire work within his own house, so that he may personally oversee the production. Therefore, we earnestly desire that those who have already subscribed, and those who intend to subscribe, would follow the example of those who have already paid their respective costs, so that the work may be finished and published all the sooner. To the truth of this final statement, we who have witnessed the progress do hereby sign our names.

Robert Plot
John?
Robert?