 "Concise History of Painting" (1873) had a new edition in 1888, as part of Bohn's "Artists' Library".Heaton also prepared a new edition of Allan Cunningham's "Lives of British Painters", and wrote new biographies and some of the major articles in the new edition of "Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers".She co-authored with Charles Christopher Black "Leonardo da Vinci and his Works" (1874), and translated Julius Meyer's biography of Correggio (1876).