Brewer's: 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.

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