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[email protected] Covent Garden www.grosvenorprints.com London WC2H 9JN Catalogue 111 Item 141, Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, one of eight plates. ` Cover: Detail of item 119 Back: Detail of Item 80 Registered in England No. 305630 Registered Office: 2, Castle Business Village, Station Road, Hampton, Middlesex. TW12 2BX. Rainbrook Ltd. Directors: N.C. Talbot. T.D.M. Rainment. C.E. Ellis. E&OE VAT No. 217 6907 49 1. Raphael's Witch!!! or the Oracle of the Future, by the Author of the Prophetic Messenger. With Coloured Designs on Copper, by R. Cruikshank & The Author, a a Piece of Music by Blewitt. London: William Charleton Wright. Paternoster Row [n.d., c.1831]. 8vo, original half calf gilt, marbled boards, first edition; pp. 23+180; with coloured title and two coloured folding plates, both very defective. Binding distressed. £260 A book containing various methods of fortune telling. According to the Preface ''This book is adapted to lay 4. [Dawn & Dusk] Hoffnung! Ahnerin Dess, about in drawing-rooms - to be read in gardens and was vergessen uns jegliche Pein macht!... [&] groves - to ornament the boudoir - for amusement in Wiedersehn - das werd ich! Dich untergehende evening parties, as an innocent substitute for cards - to Sonne!... be consulted in every mood of mind and temper. For H. Lips del. et sculp. 1804. singular as it may seem, not a thought can arise, nor a Pair of stipples, printed in sepia. 245 x 195mm (9¾ x wish originate, but the LADY-WITCH OF RAPHAEL 7¾"), large margins £260 will easily solve and satisfy.