Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Craddock, Harry. 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, totegher with subtle Observations upon Wines and their speicial occasions. Being in the particular an elucidation of the Manners and Customs of people of quality in a period of some equality..

Designed throughout in colour by Gilbert Rumbold. 287 pp. 8vo. Publisher’s half cloth with front board in gold, green and black. – New York, Richard R. Smith, 1930.

First edition. Probably the most splendid cocktail book of its time, a masterpiece of Art deco book design. Harry Craddock (1876–1963) worked from 1920 to 1938 at the American Bar in the Savoy Hotel London before moving to the Dorchester and later to Brown’s Hotel in Mayfair. – Covers and corners rubbed, back board with some losses of the gold foil. Some dampsatin to endpapers. Pages mostly clean. Without the additional slip for a Baccardi Cocktail pasted-in in some copies on p. 25. – Best.-Nr. 26479