The initial set was copyrighted in 1897[5] by James D. Richardson, a representative from the state of Tennessee, and was published in 1911 by the Bureau of National Literature and Art.
[6] There is also a supplement version that covers individual presidents in depth and was published, also by the Bureau of National Literature, but in 1917.
It covers the terms of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison between 1797 and 1817.
Volume Two covers the presidential terms of James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and a little of Martin Van Buren.
The Treasury Department at Washington, D.C. is illustrated as the frontispiece and includes the portraits of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren.