Modern Painters III was first published in 1856. The title page was as follows:
Modern Painters. / Volume lll./ Containing / Part lV. / Of Many Things. / By John Ruskin, MA. / Author of "The Stones of Venice," "The Seven Lamps of Architecture," etc. etc. / [ Quotation from Wordsworth, as in vols.i and ii] / London: / Smith Elder, & Co., 65, Cornhill. / 1856
(See Works, 5.lxiv, for full bibliographical note.)