[The King and the clown]
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street
Published: 1767
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Toy and movable books -- Specimens -- Early works to 1800; Illustrated children's books -- Early works to 1800
Notes: A harlequinade or turn-up book, composed of four sections

Title from Laurie and Whittle's Catalogue of new and interesting prints ... 1795. See Percy Muir's comments in Children's books of yesterday (London : National Book League, ca. 1945), p. 164-165 and p. 192

Each transformation is accompanied by a verse

Entirely engraved

Hand-colored illustrations

King Collection copy imperfect: lacking first turn-up and entire third section. Identification based on imprint and designation "Book 2," which appears below imprint.

King Collection copy repaired by D'Alté Welch in 1969