Spine title: Walpole's anecdotes of painting.
Engravings by H.W. Bond, William Bromley, Henry R. Cook, John William Cook, Robert Cooper, George Thomas Doo, Samuel Freeman, B.P. Gibbon, W. Raddon, H. Robinson, John Henry Robinson, Edward Scriven, William Skelton, James Thomson, Paton Thomson, A. W. Warren, William Henry Watt, and William Henry Worthington; after William Aikman, Henry Bone, William Hogarth, Hans Hysing, J. H. Jackson, Godfrey Kneller, Peter Lely, Jan Lievens, Edward Pretty, P. Stubley, John Thurston, Anthony Van Dyck, John Vanderbank, and Antonio Verrio.
Printed by R. Clay, Bread Street Hill, London.
Artist portraits include engraved plates and wood-engraved illustrations within the text.
Vol. 3 includes: On modern gardening, supplementary anecdotes of gardening in England, by Mr. Dallaway.