Harry Craddock | The Savoy Cocktail Book, London, 1930, inscribed by the author

Harry Craddock

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... The decorations are by Gilbert Rumbold. London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1930

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (191 x 124mm.), printed in colour throughout with illustrations and maps, additional printed slip pasted to p.25 (for a Bacardi cocktail), decorative silver pictorial boards, black cloth spine, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, occasional light foxing, binding slightly rubbed

First edition of the classic cocktail book by the master bartender Harry Craddock (1876-1963), with lively illustrations by Rumbold, which is still in print today.

PROVENANCE:

"Here's How" | Harry Craddock | To my dear friend Myra | October '30, inscription opposite preface