A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents
By: 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 (with additions and encyclopedic index by private enterprise).
Contributors: Richardson, James Daniel, 1843-1914.; United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing.
Publisher: Bureau of national literature, inc.
Published: 1917
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: United States -- Politics and government.; United States -- History -- Sources.
Notes: Vols. 1-18 paged continuously.
Colored plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress; most of the portraits accompanied by illustrated guard sheets.
Prefatory note signed: James D. Richardson.
"The pages of the 'The messages and papers of the presidents' have been renumbered from page one to the end, and the division into volumes has been altered. The plan is required by the addition of new matter and the desirability of keeping the volumes as nearly uniform in size as possible."- v. 1, p. xiii.