Guide Drinks, Signed (2 results)

TITLE CONTINUED: Hotel & restaurant cookery, as now practised, with the newest entrees and dishes. FIRST EDITION, in 2 parts, Preface dated 1885. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN COTTERILL. FIRST PART BY BACCHUS: Treats of Home Brewing; The Manufacture of Wines, Spirits, Liqueurs and Cordials Without Distillation - The Preparation and Manipulation of, with the Newest Names and Styles of Mixing and Dressing American Drinks, Suitable for Licensed and Non-Licensed Houses, Garden Parties, Clubs, Temperance Fetes, Bazaars, Etc. SECOND PART BY CORDON BLEU: Treats of All Branches of Cookery, Confectionery and Bread, Suitable for Public Dinners, Clubs, Small Family Parties, Balls, Routs, Luncheons, Garden Parties, Suppers, Etc. 8vo, approximately 185 x 115 mm, 7 x 4½ inches, pages: [9], 10-496, original publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, black decoration to covers. Recased with the original spine laid on new cloth, new cloth visible at head and tail of spine and on upper and lower hinges, shelf wear to edges, tips of corners worn, spine darkened and gilt dull, covers unevenly darkened, new endpapers, occasional small tear to outer margins neatly repaired, not near text and hardly noticeable, occasional turning crease, pale age-browning to margins, occasional small fox spot, otherwise a very good copy. Emilie Lebour-Fawssett has inscribed the reverse of the original endpaper in the names of Bacchus and Cordon Bleu in 1888 (see image). See: James M. Gabler, Wine into Words, page 19, No. G11790; Elizabeth Driver, A Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in Britain 1875-1914, page 85, No. 37.1. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. G. Elliott (illustrator). A smart second edition of this illustrated guide to making drinks from the UK Bartender's Guild, signed by the artist. Second edition. Signed and inscribed by the artist with an inscription of "happy drinking", dated 1959. Illustrated throughout with photographs and sketches. A guide to the cocktail bar and the making of drinks, with information on equipment, glasses, drinking at home, the history of cocktails, and a commentary on prize winning cocktails, and much more. Includes a large collection of drink recipes from coolers and fizzes to toddies and smashes. With additional commentary on wines, port, sherry, liqueurs, minerals, cordials, syrups, and medicinal hints. Written by Andre Simon, a French-born wine merchant, gourmet, and prolific writer about wine. Produced for the United Kingdom Bartenders Guild, the oldest surviving Bartenders trade guild in the world, and a founding member of the International Bartenders Association, representing the interests of the British bar industry on the international stage. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities with the odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Artist's ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good. signed by author. book.