The Savoy Cocktail Book

[Harry Craddock]

A first edition, first printing of the iconic cocktail book. The book was compiled in the height of London's jazz age by Harry Craddock, the bartender at the Savoy Hotel. It features such liquid gems as 'Damn-the Weather Cocktail', 'Hanky Panky Cocktail', and the 'One Exciting Night Cocktail'.



Harry Craddock. Decorations by Gilbert Rumbold. Constable & Company, Ltd. London. 1930. First edition, first printing with page number 3 to title-page and errarta slip for Bacardi Cocktail inserted at p.25. Hardback, octavo; decorated boards featuring an art deco design in green, black and gold foil to front board, gold foil to rear board, backed with black buckram with title in gold. 288 pages. Colour decorations throughout. English. 200 x 135mm. 0.5kg. . Very good; light shelf wear, rubbing to forecorners and edges, rubbing to spine and gold title, degree of oxidisation to gold foil on boards (as common with this edition); spotting to page edges; binding sound, no inscriptions or annotations.