The Savoy Cocktail Book. Being in the main a Complete Compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks, known and vastly appreciated in this year of grace 1930, with sundry notes of amusement and interest concerning them, together with subtle Observations upon Wines and their special occasions. Being in the particular an elucidation of the Manners and Customs of people of quality in a period of some equality. The Cocktail Recipes in this Book have been compiled by Harry Craddock of the Savoy Hotel, London
New York, Richard R. Smith Inc. (but printed by Lowe & Brydone Limited, London), 1930 [first American edition, in the same year as the first edition in London].
Octavo, 288 pages extensively printed in colour, with numerous colour illustrations and decorations (plus endpaper illustrations) by Gilbert Rumbold; there is no erratum slip on page 25.
Quarter black cloth and colour-pictorial gold foil-covered boards; cloth a little rubbed and marked, with minor wear to the ends of the spine; foil worn away from most of the edges of the boards, with minor loss near the edges (and to a few small spots on the rear cover); inner hinges cracked but holding up well; top edge dyed green, leading edge a little thumbed; small light marks to six pages, and light creases to the bottom corner-tips of about ten leaves (and the top corners of a few leaves); later commercial bookplate on the verso of the front flyleaf; overall a very decent copy of this Art Deco classic.
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