CRADDOCK, Harry (1876-1963). THE SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOK

CRADDOCK, Harry (1876-1963).  The Savoy Cocktail Book. London: Constable and Company, Ltd., 1930. 8vo (193 x 128mm). Half title, coloured illustrations and decorations by Gilbert Rumbold, without the "Bacardi Special" slip which is found in some copies at p.[25] (variable, mainly marginal, spotting and staining). Original cloth-backed coloured and silver pictorial boards, coloured pictorial endpapers (upper inner hinges broken, covers heavily rubbed with surface abrasion, crack running from top to bottom of lower cover, some minor erosion to head of spine). Provenance: G. M. Burt & Son, Weymouth (small bookseller's label on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION, second issue, without the page-number on the title.

Provenance: The Purple Shop – The Anthony Gardner Collection.
See Bellmans website article for further information: https://www.bellmans.co.uk/story/the-purple-shop-the-anthony-gardner-collection