Merry's Book of Puzzles, 1856, with Many Rebuses (and other fun things) ]animal menagerie It makes me think of

It makes me think of an illustration in a French or Spanish text book used for teaching vocabulary

10 3/4” t x 5 7/8” w x 3” d and in very good antique condition

They were ridiculous (the Grease soundtrack

Here it appears the blue was painted over an earlier coat of red

with one black spot in the sky and a line on the right lower side of her dress

Merry's Book of Puzzles, 1856, with Many Rebuses (and other fun things) ]animal menagerie It makes me think ofThis 1856 (I believe first edition) copy of Merry's Book of Puzzles "by Robert Merry" a pseudonym for John Newton Stearns shows its age, but it's a fun one and a scarce one, especially for the page after page of rebus puzzles that fill the first chunk of the book many of which I have photographed, so good! Published for Victorian children, it includes 382 puzzles with an answer key in the rear (here with solutions for puzzles only through #202 due to