(Washington: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1901), large folio (20 x 16 in.), Number 729, three-quarter leather with gilt over green linen boards, marbled endpapers, the work consists of twenty-four full page presidential portraits under tissue overlays, each facing a corresponding biographical essay by an eminent American politician or official of the day.

Likely the first edition of this portrait gallery as it lacks any reference to Theodore Roosevelt, who figures prominently in subsequent printings.

Light shelf wear; internally very good with toned paper; the half-tile and three subsequent leaves with peripheral damp stains; scattered foxing, mostly faint, on tissue overlays and some pages.