Picture puzzles, or, How to read the Bible by symbols [microform] : designed especially for the boys and girls to stimulate a greater interest in the Holy Bible
This is a children's Bible puzzle book by Frank Beard, published by J.L. Nichols & Co. in Toronto and Naperville, Illinois in 1899, designed to encourage boys and girls to study the Bible through picture riddles. The pages show rebus-style puzzles in which small black-and-white engravings of objects, such as a sunrise, a train, a well, and a figure with a staff, stand in for words and phrases. A designer could take from them the clear, boxed layout of rebus puzzles, with images placed in sequence beside short text fragments, and the simple, bold engraved line style.
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