![JOHNSON, Henry Torrens. The Gambler's Progress, Illustrated in Fourteen Designs. London: Dickinson Bros., [n.d.]. Oblong 4° (335 x 420mm). One page of letterpress description, 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates, each surmounted with demonic head-pieces. (Plates spotted, small marginal tears, plate 12 with tear extending from lower margin just into image). Original cloth-backed printed buff wrappers (worn and rubbed with small tears to edges and some small loss). Provenance: Duke of Gloucester (bookplate; his sale, Christie's London, 26-27 January 2006, part lot 690).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04354_0291_000(johnson_henry_torrens_the_gamblers_progress_illustrated_in_fourteen_de105806).jpg?w=1)
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JOHNSON, Henry Torrens. The Gambler's Progress, Illustrated in Fourteen Designs. London: Dickinson Bros., [n.d.]. Oblong 4° (335 x 420mm). One page of letterpress description, 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates, each surmounted with demonic head-pieces. (Plates spotted, small marginal tears, plate 12 with tear extending from lower margin just into image). Original cloth-backed printed buff wrappers (worn and rubbed with small tears to edges and some small loss). Provenance: Duke of Gloucester (bookplate; his sale, Christie's London, 26-27 January 2006, part lot 690).
Johnson's curious and amusing moral tale of the downward progression of the gambler from his mis-spent youth to the Mad House.
Johnson's curious and amusing moral tale of the downward progression of the gambler from his mis-spent youth to the Mad House.