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Preface.

What I allow to go out into the public here, in only a few copies, is an excerpt from the introduction to the history of JOHANN VON DALBERG, BISHOP OF WORMS, which will appear later this year in a luxury edition. In this introduction, I have dealt with the very ancient NOBLE LINEAGE OF THE VON DALBERG family in general, though as briefly as possible, and have listed the most remarkable persons from it. Among these appears, as one would expect,