签赠者Chas F. Forshaw(1863–1933)是本书编者。他是英国维多利亚晚期至爱德华时代著名的多产诗人、古物学家,常年活跃于约克郡布拉德福德(Bradford)的文化界,曾编纂过多部约克郡地方诗集。他的名字,在当时的约克郡可谓家喻户晓。他是一位拥有奇特双面人生的传奇人物:在白天,他是威严的“布拉德福德副总警监”(Special Chief Constable of Bradford),用铁腕和律法维持着这座工业重镇的秩序;而在夜晚,他则脱下警服,化身为一位温和多产的浪漫主义诗人。 签赠语如下: To Ernest Turner Good Friday 1916 From the Author Chas. F. Forshaw (Appointed Special Chief Constable of Bradford, 1909) “Many Happy Returns of the Day of your Birth — May Joy unto you Here be Given, And God, in His Mercy, Prepare you on Earth, For a Kingdom of Glory in Heaven.” “Amici sunt donum Cæli” (拉丁文大意:友谊乃上苍之礼)