Date conjectured from printers' name and address. Cf. Brown, Philip A. H. London publishers and printers, 1982.

Several wood-engraved plates are printed on both sides of leaf. Some plates and illustrations within the text are signed "Dalziel Sc." and several are also signed "NEG" [i.e. Nathaniel Everett Green].

With: Hints on sketching nature. Part II, Light and shade / by N. E. Green. London : George Rowney & Company (London : Henderson, Rait, and Spalding, General Printers, 3 & 5, Marylebone Lane, W.) -- Hints on sketching nature. Part III, Colour / by N. E. Green. London : George Rowney and Company (London : J. Pitcher and Co., The Newman Steam Press 4, Newman Street, W.)

With: Publisher's advertisements for artists' supplies on p. [1-16] at end of third title. Advertisements include a list entitled "George Rowney & Co.'s Treatises on the Fine Arts", the list including "Hints on Sketching from Nature", Parts I, II and III, and the footnote: "*The three Parts bound in one, cloth and gilt, 5s.".

MASS copy: Bound in clay red fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g. Spine with imprint: "G. Rowney & Co". With yellow glazed endpapers. Bound with Part II and Part III (McLean D 0460 and McLean D 0461).