Heading: (Cocktails)
Author: Thomas, Jerry and Christian Schultz
Title: How to Mix Drinks, or The Bon-Vivant's Companion...to which is appended A Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liquors, Fancy Syrups...
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Dick & Fitzgerald
Date Published: [1862]
Description:

243, [1] + [8] ad pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. (12mo) 18.3x12.2 cm (7¼x4¾"), publisher‘s purple blindstamped cloth with decorative gilt title on cover, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. First Edition, later state.

With price of $2.50 stamped in gilt on cover. Ownership marks in pen on front pastedown, in pencil on front preliminary blank. Jeremiah (Jerry) P. Thomas (1830-1885) was perhaps the best-known American bartender of the 19th century; because of his pioneering work in popularizing cocktails across the United States, he is considered "the father of American mixology." In addition to writing the seminal work on cocktails, his creativity and showmanship established the image of the bartender as a creative professional. As such, he was often nicknamed "Professor" Jerry Thomas. In 1862, Thomas finished Bar-Tender‘s Guide (alternately titled How to Mix Drinks or The Bon-Vivant‘s Companion), the first drink book ever published in the United States. The book collected and codified what was then an oral tradition of recipes from the early days of cocktails, including some of his own creations; the guide laid down the principles for formulating mixed drinks of all categories. The first edition of the guide includes the first written recipes of such cocktails as the Brandy Daisy, Fizz, Flip, Sour and variations of the earliest form of mixed drink, Punch.

Rubbing with some fraying at ends of slightly leaning spine, cloth faded, some dampstaining; some dropstains, offsetting and light foxing, rear blank excised; about very good.