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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/tn/000-Front-Cover-q85-377x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
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.
![[picture: Full-page border with ivy]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/182-full-page-ivy-border-q85-149x200.jpg "[picture: Full-page border with ivy]")
![[picture: ]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/055-deuteronomy-xxxii-11-detail-eagles-nest-q97-647x450.jpg "[picture: ]")
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![[picture: Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/000-title-page-detail-purple-border-vine-leaves-q93-149x200.jpg "[picture: Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border]")
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...] [$]
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.
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![[picture: Hands from p. 69]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/069-detail-1-works-of-thy-hands-q85-262x200.jpg "[picture: Hands from p. 69]")
![[picture: Bare Feet of God, from p. 69]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Beard-BibleSymbols/wm/big/069-detail-2-his-feet-q85-214x200.jpg "[picture: Bare Feet of God, from p. 69]")
