The Savoy Cocktail Book: Being in the main a complete compendium of Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks... Author: Craddock, Harry, compiler Place: London Publisher: Constable & Company Date: 1930 Description: 287, [1] pp. Decorations by Gilbert Rumbold. 19x12.5 cm (7½x5"), cloth-backed gold boards decorated in black, green and gray. First Edition, second issue. Second issue, with the text block unpaginated until the Preface (page 7). This copy does not contain the advert for Booth's Gin. A handsome copy of this iconic collection of drink recipes and imagery. Harry Craddock (1876–1963) was an Englishman who became one of the most famous bartenders of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, Craddock moved to the United States in 1897, where he worked at Cleveland's Hollenden Hotel and New York's Knickerbocker Hotel and Hoffman House, becoming a United States citizen. He left America during Prohibition and sailed to Liverpool with his wife and daughter before joining the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel, London, in 1920. Craddock's The Savoy Cocktail Book is a collection of 750 cocktail recipes. Lot Amendments Condition: General light wear and rubbing to boards; hinges cracked with rear board loosening; very good. Item number: 350825
The Savoy Cocktail Book: Being in the main a complete compendium of Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks... Author: Craddock, Harry, compiler Place: London Publisher: Constable & Company Date: 1930 Description: 287, [1] pp. Decorations by Gilbert Rumbold. 19x12.5 cm (7½x5"), cloth-backed gold boards decorated in black, green and gray. First Edition, second issue. Second issue, with the text block unpaginated until the Preface (page 7). This copy does not contain the advert for Booth's Gin. A handsome copy of this iconic collection of drink recipes and imagery. Harry Craddock (1876–1963) was an Englishman who became one of the most famous bartenders of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, Craddock moved to the United States in 1897, where he worked at Cleveland's Hollenden Hotel and New York's Knickerbocker Hotel and Hoffman House, becoming a United States citizen. He left America during Prohibition and sailed to Liverpool with his wife and daughter before joining the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel, London, in 1920. Craddock's The Savoy Cocktail Book is a collection of 750 cocktail recipes. Lot Amendments Condition: General light wear and rubbing to boards; hinges cracked with rear board loosening; very good. Item number: 350825
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