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Images from Bible Symbols: The Choicest Passages of God’s Word put in the Fascinating Garb of Pictures by Frank Beard [1842 – 1905] and others; text prepared by Martha Van Marter [born 1839]; Chicago, 1908.
The book is a sort of rebus, in which pictures stand for words, and perhaps help people to remember phrases from the Bible, although not necessarily to understand them or to learn love and tolerance.
Title: Bible Symbols
Published by: The John A. Hertel Co.
City: Chicago, Toronto, Boston
Date: 1908
Total items: 36
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
The front cover of “Bible Symbols” is black with a vaguely religions decorative pattern embossed up on it, and the title in gold. I have made a separate image featuring just the central title cartouche from the front cover. [more...] [$]
Some people say that a good title page should contain an odd number of clumps of text; here there are five, so this must be good, right? I have also made a separate image out of the purple border around the page. [more...] [$]
Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border
This vine-leaf border is characteristic of the late Victorian era; although this book was printed in 1908, it was first published in 1904, and is on the cusp between Victorian and Edwardian. It is printed in purple; there is an almost [...] [more...] [$]
54.—But these are they of which ye shall not eat.
The complete quotation, using the King James Bible of 1611, is as follows: [more...] [$]
The Eagle and the Ossifrage taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]
The Ospray and the Glede taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]
The Kite and the Vulture taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]
The Raven taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]
The Owl and the Night Hawk taken from an illustration of the list of birds that Jews were forbidden to eat, some 2500 years ago; full illustration. [more...] [$]
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