CRADDOCK, Harry.
The Savoy Cocktail Book.
London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1930.
$1,500.00
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Item Number: RRB-152566
+$500
“Behind every great bartender (literally) is a roughed-up, stained copy of The Savoy Cocktail Book”: First Edition of Harry Craddock's The Savoy Cocktail Book
First edition of this iconic, definitive text on cocktails. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth over decorated embossed boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrations and decorations by Gilbert Rumbold. In very good condition, small stamp and stickers to the front free pictorial endpaper. A handsome example of one of the most celebrated of all cocktail books.
The Savoy Cocktail Book features 750 of Harry Craddock’s most popular recipes. It is a fascinating record of the cocktails that set London alight at the time, and which are just as popular today. From Slings to Smashes, Fizzes to Flips, and featuring art deco illustrations, Harry Craddock was “the king of cocktail shakers,” and The Savoy Cocktail Book contains humorous anecdotes on the origin of the cocktail and its purpose (“for the solace of man”), as well as “an elucidation of the Manners and Customs of people of quality in a period of some equality.” “Behind every great bartender (literally) is a roughed-up, stained copy of The Savoy Cocktail Book, it has been an industry must-have since its first edition” (GQ).
The Savoy Cocktail Book.
$1,500.00
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