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Merry's Book of Puzzles, 1856, with Many Rebuses (and other fun things) greenwood china by 1900 the word hadThis 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