The Gentleman's Companion: Volume I, Being an Exotic Cookery Book, Or, Around the World with Knife, Fork and Spoon; Volume II, Being an Exotic Drinking Book, Or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. Limited Edition, set #556 of 1250. Black and white frontispieces. Original cloth over boards. Octavos. xix, [I], 1-220 pages and xix, [I], 1-217 pages.
Excellent companion guides to food and cocktails, featuring recipes and concoctions gathered from the author's many travels.
The cookery volume includes extras such as home formulae for such exotics as Hell-Fire Bitters, Key West Old Lime Sour, herb vinegars, and various strange and delicious sauces. The drinking volume, likewise, in addition to expected mixing instructions for drinks, includes home formulae for certain wines, meads, bitters, and cordials, instructions on the proper service of beverages, and even advice on going to bars. And much more in both!
A beautiful set of this classic Derrydale work, NOT to be confused with the 1951 reprint by Crown Publishers. Both volumes here printed on fine deckle-edge paper with fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Some leaves unopened. This is set number 556 of the 1250 in the edition.
Ref. SIEGEL 147.
Fine, with slight rubs to corner tips of spines. Spine titles a bit darkened. Hinges sound, clean and bright inside.
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