Harry Craddock (1873–1950)

The old, original classic cocktail book. 1st home to iconic cocktails such as the French 75, Blood & Sand, and many others. The art deco illustrations aren't bad either.

LOVE this book. Its main purpose is, of course, to provide cocktail recipes, and on that front it is very useful indeed. The bonus is that it's also an education on all types of alcoholic drinks popular at the time of original publication, extremely stylish and occasionally hilarious, with lovely little pithy anecdotes and cartoon illustrations. I stumbled across this book by accident, I think on a remainder table, and am so glad that I did.

One of the all time classic cocktail books. 1st pub 1930 Constable & Co. Ltd. Illustrated endpapers.

2nd ed 3rd prt. Orig pub 1930, new ed 1952, reprinted 1954 & this 1959. "...Being a Compendium of Cocktails Sours Flips Toddies Coolers Smashes Daisies Highballs Egg Noggs Tom Collins Sangarees Punches Cobblers Rickeys Juleps Slings Shrubs Fizzes Frappe Fixes & Cups." End-papers have: Warning! Newest Savoy Cocktails.