Most Alphabet Books I Have Seen To Help Youngsters Read,

have a theme to them, animals, plants and flowers, toys, you get the idea,

but I have never seen one that uses buildings, Johann David Steingruber (1702-1787) was an architect in what is now Germany. In 1773, he published this alphabet book which used letters as outlines for building shapes, some like the Z above sort of look OK,

but others like the R above look totally mad!

a more fanciful architectural alphabet from 1753 can be found here, alphabet buildings, who would have thought it?