PEEFACE

That's from Robert Forby's The Vocabulary of East Anglia (1830) and is, as typos go, both prominent and unfortunate enough to be quite noteworthy. The surprising thing is: it's not alone. Here's Heinrich Hoffmann's Slovenly Peter Reformed: Showing How He Became a Neat Scholar (1853):

 

And here, from an 1808 edition of Dryden's poetry:

In fact a Google Books search for the 19th-century throws up literally dozens of examples. One might start to suspect the typesetters were doing it on purpose ...