[Americana] [Prohibition] Americana Eight Cocktail Napkins Hand Blocked with Recipes and the Histories of Eight Famous Drinks

No place, no date (ca. 1925). First edition. Oblong 8vo. (ii), 2-17, (2) pp. With eight color pictorial hand-blocked cloth napkins, each mounted on rectos with facing letterpress text. Publisher's quarter black paper over gold jacquard-printed boards, decorated in black and in red, scattered wear and rubbing to boards and extremities; all edges trimmed; small, partially worn label on front paste-down ("France"), possibly denoting (or obscuring) country of origin; sheets toned with scattered soiling and wear along edges; light offsetting from napkins onto facing text.

An amusing and rare Prohibition-era cocktail recipe book. Dedicated to "serious drinkers everywhere", this book provides recipes for eight American cocktails (each listing "non-alcoholic" spirits, of course) with a short history of their origin, including the Manhattan, Blue Blazer, Deadwood Dick, Rip Van Winkle Sleeper, Belmont Park, Alabama, Barbary Coast, and the New Orleans Drip, each with a vibrant and richly colored napkin illustrating the drink.

This copy appears to be in a variant binding with a black paper spine over gold jacquard-printed boards. Furthermore, some of the napkins are printed in variant colors, as compared to other copies.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance

From the collection of Justin G. Schiller

[Americana] [Prohibition] Americana Eight Cocktail Napkins Hand Blocked with Recipes and the Histories of Eight Famous Drinks

[Americana] [Prohibition] Americana Eight Cocktail Napkins Hand Blocked with Recipes and the Histories of Eight Famous Drinks