THOMAS, Jerry. The Bar-Tender's [Bartenders] Guide; or, How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks. New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, Publishers, (1876).

First Separate and Revised Edition. Original cloth, black decoration and print at front cover and spine, small octavo, 107 pages plus ads. Full title continues: "Containing Clear and Reliable Directions For Mixing All The Beverages Used In The United States, Together With The Most Popular British, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish Recipes; Embracing Punches, Juleps, Cobblers, Etc., Etc., In Endless Variety. By Jerry Thomas, Formerly Principal Bar-Tender at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and the Planters' House, St. Louis." Jerry Thomas and publishers Dick & Fitzgerald introduced the first cocktail mixing guide in America in 1864 bound with Schultz' Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials which is dropped for this edition. This second edition is the first time that the 'Tom Collins' drink makes an appearance in print. A seminal work of American bar tending. A firmly bound Good copy, covers soiled and stained, foxing to endpapers, spotting or foxing to page edges and some fore-edge page margins.

Price: $1,500.00