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There are some interesting older dedications, like Machiavelli's 32-line toadying exordium to Lorenzo the Magnificent in The Prince . (In Italian it probably ran longer.)
But not all of the oldies are goodies: Edmund Spenser's dedications of his (nine) books vary from one-liners to some very sleepy sycophancies many times that length.
But such acknowledgments do not qualify as dedications in the sense generally understood and in the book at hand in particular.
The reviewer quotes five dedications (misquoting one) and merely says they seem to him “neither funny nor clever.”
The review of my Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications [XVII,4] made no mention of the fact that the quoted dedications are glossed or explicated.