Okay! I think I'm pretty much just about done with my ebook -- and here's my "sample copy" for y'all!
I started to enter all the data into iTunes Producer -- and discovered in the process that that's a bit of an ordeal in itself (grrrr!) :/ -- and in there noticed that one can either leave creating a "sample copy" up to Apple to do, or make one oneself. Since I have no idea which part(s) Apple would choose, I thought I might be better off making one myself, so that I can include a little bit from the "main" (modern) half of my book, and a bit from the "appendix" (the "olde" half), while stripping out at the same time any other, extra stuff that perhaps wouldn't quite belong in a sample copy (for example the dedication page -- which I here turned into a "SAMPLE COPY" page, and also deleting the majority of chapters and artwork/graphics, of course).
I'm curious what anyone thinks, naturally -- both about whether this seems apropos for a "sample copy" for up on the iBooks Store, and also whether I've done anything that's glaringly wrong as far as coding, etc. goes (if you can be troubled to look inside), of course.