Print by David Hockney entitled 'No.2A The Gospel Singing' from the series 'A Rake's Progress'. Great Britain, ca. 1963.

Suite originally housed in a black cloth slip-case lettered on spine in gold ‘A RAKE’S PROGRESS DAVID HOCKNEY’ along with ‘ea’ (logo). Inside a red cloth portolio. Slip-case is unnumbered and is stored elsewhere, currently (2011) at the back of '1st Mezz' in the National Art Library.
Inside the slip-case remain the following (description and transcripts):
3 loose sheets each with watermark in lower left corner of shield with lion over circles and text ‘CRISBROOK / JBG’
Sheet 1: [Title in red; text in black] ‘A Rake’s Progress / A graphic tale comprising sixteen etchings 1961 to 1963 / David Hockney / Editions Alecto, The Print Centre, 8 Holland Street, London W.8 / In Association with the Royal College of Art. December, 1963’
Sheet 2: ‘The etchings were begun in London in September 1961 / after a visit to the United States. My intention was to make / eight plates, keeping the original titles but moving the / setting to New York. The Royal Collage, on seeing me start / work, were anxious to extend the series with the idea of / incorporating the plates in a book of reproductions / to be printed by the Lion and Unicorn Press; accordingly I set / out to make twenty-four plates, but later reduced the total / to sixteen, retaining the numbering from one to eight and / most of the titles of the original tale. / Altogether I made about thirty five plates of which nineteen / were abandoned, so leaving these sixteen in the published / set. No 7 and 7a were etched at the Pratt Graphic / Workshop in New York City 6 May of this year, the others / at the Royal College of Art from 1961 to 1963. / December 1963 [signed David Hockney in pencil] Set number 25/50.’ [edition number in pencil]
Sheet 3: [underlined transcript below printed in red; rest of text in black]
A Rake’s Progress / Etched On Zinc Plates 12” x 16” / Printed by C.H. Welch. London / Paper 44lb. Crisbrooke Royal Hotpress / by Barcham Green, Maidstone, Kent / Letterpress The Curwen Press, London, England / Type Times New Roman / Folio Design Eric Ayers / Publishers Editions Alecto, The Print Centre, London, / as folio of sixteen original etchings in / numbered and signed edition limited to / fifty sets with ten further sets of Artist’s / Proofs. / The Lion & Unicorn Press of the Royal / College of Art, London, as a book of / photographic reproductions with / script in a subscribed edition of four / hundred copies.
Dims. of slip-case: 64.7 x 51 x 2cm.
Condition of slip-case: Tear in lower right corner of slip-case and general scuff-marks. Sheets have folds lower left and top right. Title-page has ink smudges in lower right and lower centre.

CIRC.192-1965