Square 8vo (217 x 162 mm). (Some rust-holes occasionally touching letters, divot to lower third of each leaf with associated short tears touching letters throughout, final leaf with repair to gutter margin, a few other repairs and stains.) Later half calf, marbled boards. Provenance: Gouverneur Morris (bookplate).

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS'S COPY OF DRYDEN'S PLAY. Second edition, printed in the same year as the first edition. Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), 'the Penman of the Constitution," wrote the Preamble to the United States Constitution, was signatory to the Articles of the Confederation and the United States Constitution, and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1800-1803. Morris's armorial bookplate is in the style of Chippendale, and si the same pattern as his father Lewis Morris's bookplate (see Early American Bookplates, 591). McDonald 75b.