VOLUME I. Third Edition .-
This was issued soon after ed. 1 of vol. ii., and conformed to the larger page adopted for the latter-viz. Imperial 8vo (as in all later editions). The title-page was altered, thus:-
Modern Painters. | Volume I. | Containing | Parts I. and II. | By a Graduate of Oxford. | [ Quotation ] | Third Edition | Revised by the Author | London: | Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill. | 1846.
pp. lxii.+422. New preface (here, pp. 52-53). The text was largely revised (see above, p. xlv.). Issued (Sept. 16, 1846) in pale green cloth boards. This and all later volumes were lettered simply, "Modern Painters, Volume I., II." etc. The price was raised to 18s. "Made-up sets," i.e. third eds. of vols. i. and ii., and first eds. of vols. iii., iv., and v., have in recent years been sold in the auction rooms at prices ranging, partly according to condition, from £31 (1887) to £15 (1902). ( Works, 3.lvii-lviii)
Following the addition of the new Preface to the Second Edition, 1844, the edition contains the most significant revisions made between all the lifetime editions. A short new Preface to the Third Edition is here added. Major revisions occur on pages xviii, 6, 13, 28, 39, 128, 130, 131, 134, 138, 140, 156, 158, 161, 162, 163, 179, 183, 225, 233, 234, 235, 237, 240, 243, 247, 267, 288, 289, 291, 299, 303, 310, 311, 312, 324, 325, 342, 343, 345, 352, 353, 361, 379, 380, 384, 395, 401, 413, and 420.