Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £500 |
CRADDOCK, Harry (1876-1963). 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. London: Constable and Company, Ltd., 1930. 8vo (192 x 130mm). Decorations by Gilbert Rumbold printed in colours, “Bacardi Cocktail” slip inserted at [p.25] ([?]cocktail spillage stains to pp. 174-175 but otherwise clean apart from a few other mainly marginal stains). Original cloth-backed silver and coloured pictorial boards (some minor surface abrasion, as usual). FIRST EDITION, first issue, with page-number on title.