[cocktails]. An Art Deco classic, here in very good condition with stunning illustrations. Scores of cocktails recipes from the 'Cupid' to the 'Trilby', with occasional anecdotes and further recipes chapters for Sours and Toddies; Flips; Egg Noggs, Tom Collins; Slings; Shrubs, etc', Punches; Wine; Champagne; Port.

Craddock, inventor of the White Lady, was head bartender at the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London. Born in Stroud in 1875, he honed his skills at the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York before being forced to return to England in 1920 when Prohibition was introduced in the United States. His return however coincided with the beginning of the Jazz Age, fuelled by American cocktails. Since its first publication, Craddock's book has never been out of print.

First edition, first impression (with the pagination on the title-page and the tipped-in recipe at p.25); 8vo (200 x 140 mm); illustrated throughout in colour by Gilbert Rumbold, slight spotting to fore-edge of text block, which has encroached on a few page extremities, otherwise near-fine; publisher's black cloth gilt, art deco foil design to upper board, lower board gilt, gilt lettering to spine entirely legible, slight dulling and rubbing to boards and extremities, otherwise very good-plus and uncommon thus.