print; book

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Object Type: print; book
Museum number: 1855,1208.63.+
Description: 'The Progress of a Rake: or, The Templar's Exit', (B. Dickinson and R. Montague: London, 1732): titlepage; letterpress text on pages numbered 3-61. Letterpress text; bound in red leather stamped in gold, with marbled endpapers and gilt-edged pages
Producer name: Published by: Bispham Dickinson; Published by: Richard Montagu; Published by: Edward Nutt; Published by: James Brotherton; Published by: Mrs Anne Dodd II (? or her mother); Published by: John Brindley; Published by: John Jolliff; Published by: Critchly; Published by: J Stagg
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Production date: 1732
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Dimensions: Height: 194 millimetres (approx. page size); Width: 124 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Curator's comments: "The Progress of a Rake" was published as "By the Author of The Harlot's Progress", presumably "The Lure of Venus; or a Harlot's Progress ... by Mr Joseph Gay", the author's name referring back to a pseudonym invented around 1717 by Edmund Curll in allusion to John Gay; one of the writers who used the name was John Durant Breval. The etched frontispiece (1855,1208.63) has been removed and placed in the satires series.
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Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1855
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1855,1208.63.+

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