Home-made summer and winter drinks: Cups, liqueurs, cocktails and invalid drinks by M. E Steedman - 1924-01-01

Ward, Lock, 1924-01-01. hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. 0x0x0. n.d. [1924?] Ward, Lock and Co. (London), 5 x 7 1/2 inches tall green cloth hardcover in publisher's price-clipped dust jacket, black lettering to spine, period sepia advertisements to endpapers, illustrated with several unpaginated full-page photographs on coated paper throughout, index, 160 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a soiled, worn and torn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. An unspecified early edition of this work first published in 1924. ~SP26~ [1.5P] Many of the drinks in this century-old mixology handbook have fallen into obscurity - ginger beer powders, grinto punch, ginger flip, white wine negus, dandelion wine, parsnip wine, athole brose, banana ratafia, damson gin, pomegranate shrub, 'brain duster,' Collin's reviver. Contents: Tea, Coffee, Cocoa, Etc.; Summer and Soft Drinks; Winter Drinks; Home-Made Wines; Cups; Liqueurs; Cocktails; Invalid Drinks; Index.