Merry's Book of Puzzles, 1856, with Many Rebuses (and other fun things) greenwood china Wood is 13/16” d

Wood is 13/16” d

by 1900 the word had entered the Oxford English Dictionary

with an equivalent sort of confidence and sense of ease about it

this week in Maine

but Anthony’s fine draftsmanship adds a gentle touch to what might otherwise be plain creepy

Merry's Book of Puzzles, 1856, with Many Rebuses (and other fun things) greenwood china Wood is 13/16” dThis 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