1891 · London
by DeSalis, Mrs
London: Longmans Green and Co, 1891. Octavo, 100 pages. Stated second edition, but with pagination identical to the first, really second printing. With recipes for punches, ales, syrups, drinks for invalids, liqueurs and cups. The section "American Drinks", includes recipes for The Floster, the Prairie Oyster, the Corpse Reviver, and the Cramhamball. Quite charming. A bit of edgewear, in lightly soiled publishers printed decorative paper over half-cloth. With the bookseller's blind stamp of W.H. Barrett, Bookseller of Chichester. [Noling, Beverage Literature, page 358]. (Inventory #: 4842)