A rake's progress [print] / invented painted & engrav'd by Wm Hogarth.

Title from item and from secondary sources; publication line and statement of responsibility from plate I.
Plate 1 has publication line at lower right: Invented Painted & Engrav'd by Wm Hogarth, & Publish'd June ye 25 1735. According to Act of Parliament; publication line on plate 8 at lower left: Invented &c. by Wm Hogarth & Publish'd According to Act of Parliament June ye 25. 1735 [added above] Retouch'd by the Author 1763.
Series of plates originally published in 1735, with subsequent reissues of reimpressions from the original copperplates published during the artist's lifetime and thereafter; these impressions are the later retouched 3rd and 4th states, showing the various changes made to the plates by Hogarth during his lifetime as described by Paulson.
Set forms part of an album (PML 146851) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints issued by the artist's widow Jane Hogarth (1711?-1789) and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Library's copy bound into an album, with the bound plates preceded by a leaf bearing a mounted leather label with the title of the series tooled in gilt.