A harlot's progress [print] / Wm. Hogarth invt. pinxt. et sculpt.

Title from item and from secondary sources; date from Paulson.
Individual plates signed "Wm. Hogarth invt. pinxt. et sculpt." at lower right.
Series of plates originally published in 1732, with subsequent reissues of reimpressions from the original copperplates published during the artist's lifetime and thereafter; these impressions are the 4th state as described by Paulson, with the roman cross added to the foot of each plate and numerous accumulated alterations made by Hogarth to the engraved designs. Cf. 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.