The phrase "as preface to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a topic or providing context before presenting the main content.
Example: "As preface to the discussion, I would like to highlight the importance of understanding the historical background."
Alternatives: "as an introduction to" or "as a lead-in to".
ALBUM about Charles Addams, as preface to four previously-unpublished cartoons... Charles Addams was not The New Yorker's most prolific cartoonist.
"However, very occasionally, I can write something that clocks in at under 15 minutes that I think, you know what?, that's not bad," he continued as preface to "Postcard," a four-and-a-half-minute ballad.
24), efficiently dispatched, served mainly as preface to Mr. Kenyon's "Death of Webern," a heady mix of film-noir strings and sultry rhythm vamp that bore scant resemblance to its ostensible namesake.
As preface to the medley, Pound set "Dictes Moy" ("Tell Me"), the most famous lyric of Villon (yes, "Where are the snows of yesteryear?"), and it can serve here as a prototype.
By Robert Mankoff The New Yorker, December 7 , 1998P. 150 ALBUM about Charles Addams, as preface to four previously-unpublished cartoons... Charles Addams was not The New Yorker's most prolific cartoonist.
Although Freud may have… ALBUM about Darwinism as it relates to New Yorker volcano cartoons... Experts consider the survival of the volcano cartoon — a.k.a. the gods are angry — a textbook case… ALBUM about Charles Addams, as preface to four previously-unpublished cartoons... Charles Addams was not The New Yorker's most prolific cartoonist.
The neutralism ideal is addressed by retaining the identity of questioner and avoiding flat assertions except as prefaces to a question or as attributed to a third party.
LONDON — Michael Nunn and William Trevitt are ballet's most charming ambassadors: two former leading Royal Ballet dancers who formed their own group, George Piper Dances, in 2000 and made a name for themselves by offering jokey, demystifying behind-the-scenes videos as prefaces to serious, demanding new work.
(Similar introductions can also be found as prefaces to commentaries on Porphyry's Introduction).
The guides to theological method and exegesis of the Bible that he wrote as prefaces to the 1516 and 1518 editions of the New Testament mark a major turn in theology and the interpretation of Scripture and posed a serious challenge to the scholastic theology that had dominated university faculties of theology since the thirteenth century.
The Lives, which were critical as well as biographical studies, appeared as prefaces to selections of each poet's work, and they were longer and more detailed than originally expected.
