Morris, Anne Cary, editor. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, Minister of the United States to France; Member of the Constitutional Convention, etc. Volumes I and II. New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1888. Very Fine.Octavo. Hardbound in tan half calf and maroon cloth. The Morris family arms in gilt on the cover, and lettered in gilt on the spine, with ruled adornments at the head and foot, and a floral ornament at the lower center. Boards beveled at the edges with marbled pastedowns and flyleaves. Page tops finished in gilt. Bound for John J. Ford, Jr. by Alan Grace in England, with his tag affixed to the inside back cover of volume II. Ford’s own bookplate is inside each front cover, while his cost codes for the book and, separately, for the binding, are noted in pencil at the upper right corner of one endpaper. Superb copies of these volumes documenting this American Founding Father.From the D. Brent Pogue Library. Earlier ex John J. Ford, Jr., Stacks-George Frederick Kolbe sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Reference Library, Part I, June 2004, lot 684.