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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.)
The review of my Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications [XVII,4] made no mention of the fact that the quoted dedications are glossed or explicated.
There are those who collect all sorts of collectables, including, apparently, dedications.
But such acknowledgments do not qualify as dedications in the sense generally understood and in the book at hand in particular.