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.