Volume I. First Edition .-
For title-page of this, see above, p. xxxi. Large crown 8vo, pp. xxxi.+420. The title-page of this and all subsequent editions had the quotation from Wordsworth (as on the title-page here). On p. v. was the Dedication, "To the Land-scape Artists of England." Issued (price 12s.) in green (or purple) cloth boards; lettered on the back with the words, "Modern Painters Their Superiority in The Art of Landscape Painting to the Ancient Masters"; this title was enclosed in the device (here reproduced) of two trees, a lake, and the setting sun, which figured in all subsequent editions of the book, up to and including that of 1873. The larger sized page and familiar pale green binding was not adopted until vol. ii. and the third edition of vol. i., both of which appeared in 1846. No illustrations. ( Works, 3.lvii)