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Craddock”, with a further Christmas inscription below “J. M. Leonard, From A.M.L. Decr 25/35”. Signed copies of this work are notably uncommon. This copy, though in clean and bright condition, nevertheless shows signs of its use, having recipes for a grasshopper cocktail, tomato cocktail, Park Lane Special, margaritas, and banana daiquiris written in manuscript in the notes section at the end of the text. The sources for three of these are laid in: the Park Lane Special written in manuscript on the back of a postcard featuring the Park Lane Hotel, the banana daiquiri in manuscript to a half page neatly torn from a notepad and the margarita recipe typed on the headed notepaper of Monroe E. Spaght (1909–1993), research chemist and president of the Shell Oil Company. Craddock’s legendary cocktail book features 750 of his most popular recipes, together with elegant art- deco illustrations, and anecdotes behind the cocktails. This impression, printed the year after the first of 1930, does not include the recipe for a Bacardi cocktail, usually found tipped-in to the first impression. Octavo. Original black cloth-backed metallic boards, spine lettered in gilt, front cover decorated in green, black, and grey, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and coloured illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold throughout. Text printed in red, blue, and black. Rubbing and slight wear to spine ends, gilt rubbed to spine, shallow scuffs to boards, remaining brighter than often found, faint drink stain to pp. 10–11, else contents clean; a very good copy. £2,000 [152945]
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The pages have an embossed effect, achieved by printing with heavily textured blocks. Cox mounted sheets of cardboard onto plywood and layered them first with gesso, then with natural materials like leaves, twigs, and seeds.
4 volumes, octavo. Original marbled boards, black titles to white cloth spine labels, pages offset printed with heavily textured blocks. With original acetate jackets and prospectus for the series loosely inserted. Head of spine of Winter and lower tips of Autumn lightly bumped, with negligible chip to acetate of Winter , light foxing to some edges, extending to half-title of Autumn . A near-fine set, clean and bright. ¶ Chambers 136. £2,250 [150569] 45 CRADDOCK, Harry. The Savoy Cocktail Book. London: Constable & Company, Ltd, 1931 ORIGINAL ART DECO BINDING First edition, fourth impression, inscribed on Christmas Day by the author with his customary phrase on the copyright page, “’Here’s How! Harry
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