Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable/A B C Book

by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

A B C Book. A primer, a book in which articles are set in alphabetical order, as the A B C Railway Guide. The old Primers contained the Catechism, as is evident from the lines:—

That is question now;
And then comes answer like an Absey book."
Shakespeare: King John, i. 1.