A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents
By: [by James D. Richardson]
Contributors: United States. President
Publisher: Bureau of National Literature
Published: 1909
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 3449
Copyright date: 1897
Other titles: Messages and papers of the presidents
Notes: "Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, of the House and Senate, pursuant to an act of the fifty-second Congress of the United States."

Some plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.

"With additions and encyclopedic index by private enterprise" ; [this vol. does not contain an index].

Includes illustrations and maps on lining papers.

Illustration on frontispiece bears copyright date of 1909.

The 7th vol. of a ten-vol. set.

Copy 1: Bound in full leather, with embossed illustration of the White House on front cover; spine detached, missing.

Copy 2: Bound in full leather, with embossed illustration of the White House on front cover.

Copy 2: Bookplate: Compliments of McDaniel & Son, plumbers, Litchfield, Illinois.
Table of contents: title: Franklin Pierce (fragment); title: James Buchanan, March 4, 1857, to March 4, 1861; title: Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861, to April 15, 1865.