SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOKCRADDOCK (HARRY, of The Savoy Hotel, London) The Savoy Cocktail Book... .. Decorations are by Gilbert Rumbold, SPECIAL SIGNED EDITION, number 43 of an unspecified number, and author's signature on colophon page, half-title, numerous illustrations and decorations throughout, printed in colour, additional Bacardi Cocktail slip inserted on p.25, light spotting (heaviest to half-title), publisher's screen-printed cloth-covered boards, title lettered black on gilt on spine, t.e.g., spine ends rubbed, 8vo, Constable, 1930FootnotesTHE SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, a variant of the standard first edition of the most celebrated of all cocktail recipe books, its quintessentially Art Deco-style illustrations conjuring up the Jazz Age. Harry Craddock held sway as bartender at the Savoy Hotel throughout the 1920s/early 1930s, and is credited with the creation of several famous cocktails including the White Lady.
This copy is first state, with the page numeral on p.1, and Bacardi Cocktail recipe inserted on a slip at p.25, and with the decorative binding only used for this limited edition.
SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOKCRADDOCK (HARRY, of The Savoy Hotel, London) The Savoy Cocktail Book... .. Decorations are by Gilbert Rumbold, SPECIAL SIGNED EDITION, number 43 of an unspecified number, and author's signature on colophon page, half-title, numerous illustrations and decorations throughout, printed in colour, additional Bacardi Cocktail slip inserted on p.25, light spotting (heaviest to half-title), publisher's screen-printed cloth-covered boards, title lettered black on gilt on spine, t.e.g., spine ends rubbed, 8vo, Constable, 1930FootnotesTHE SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, a variant of the standard first edition of the most celebrated of all cocktail recipe books, its quintessentially Art Deco-style illustrations conjuring up the Jazz Age. Harry Craddock held sway as bartender at the Savoy Hotel throughout the 1920s/early 1930s, and is credited with the creation of several famous cocktails including the White Lady.
This copy is first state, with the page numeral on p.1, and Bacardi Cocktail recipe inserted on a slip at p.25, and with the decorative binding only used for this limited edition.
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