MANUSCRIPT. – Queen MARY. [An almost entirely blank common-place book owned and inscribed by Queen Mary. N.p.: 1926.] 212pp., manuscript, folio (533 x 390mm.) 106 leaves, all blank but for the first signed and dated by Queen Mary, and the third leaf with two names and some lines of verse hand-written. (Mild toning.) Contemporary cats-paw calf with the Royal Arms in gilt to covers, silk decorative endpapers, g.e. (inner hinge weakened, spine ends worn, scuffing and rubbing to extremities). Note: Queen Mary has signed ‘Mary, R’ and dated it ‘1926’. Two leaves later the Archbishop of Canterbury Randall Davidson has signed and dated his name, ‘1927’, and underneath that is his wife Edith Davidson has signed her name. Randall has also hand-written four lines of verse from Robert Browning’s poem ‘ Abt Volger’. The Archbishop had been very close to Mary’s mother, Queen Victoria, and her private chaplain from 1883 until 1891 and, like the narrator in Browning’s poem, may have been in a reflective mood. A year later, in 1928, he resigned as Archbishop, the first to ever resign the office, and died in 1930.