Description
Inscribed by Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, a presentation copy of The Reverend Alexander John Forsyth and His Invention of the Percussion Lock.
Octavo, 35pp. Beige cloth, title in blue on front cover. Stated “Reprinted 1957” on copyright page. Solid text block, faint soiling to front cover, small scratch to rear cover. Newspaper clippings affixed to rear panel.
Inscribed by the Queen Mother: “Brikhall / Elizabeth R / August 31st 1960” on the front free endpaper. Additional signatories include: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, the 5th Marquess of Salisbury and his wife Elizabeth Salisbury; Lord Donne; Rachel Bowles Lyon; George Frederick Laurence Hyde Villiers, the 7th Earl of Clarendon; and Major Charles Murray Kennedy St Clair, the 17th Lord Sinclair.
Queen Elizabeth (1900-2002) inscribed this copy while residing in the popular royal holiday town of Birkhall, Scotland. Upon the ascension of King George VI in 1936, the pair occupied Birkhall and the neighboring Balmoral Castle each summer. Birkhall was passed to Charles, Prince of Whales (now King Charles III) from Queen Elizabeth upon her death in 2002.
