New Guide for the Hotel, Bar, Restaurant, Butler, and Chef. Being a Hand Book for the Management of Hotel and American Bars, and the Manufacture of the Principal New and Fashionable Drinks. Hotel & Restaurant Cookery as now practised, With the Newest Entrees and Dishes -
Emilie Lebour-Fawssett Cordon Bleu and Bacchus , Bacchus
1885 - William Nicholson and Sons, London - First Edition
First edition of this very early and quirky professional 1885 guide to all things bar and hotel, including early and in some instances first examples of Cocktails (such as the Tom Collins Fizz, see chapters X and XI), in nice bright gilt cloth, the hints and knowledge within is best described directly from the title page -
The First Part ‘By Bacchus’ treats of Home Brewing; The Manufacture of Wines, Spirits, Liqueurs and Cordials Without Distillation - The Preparation and Manipulation of, with the Newest Names and Styles of Mixing and Dressing American Drinks, Suitable for Licensed and Non-Licensed Houses, Garden Parties, Clubs, Temperance Fetes, Bazaars, &c,.
The Second Part ‘By Cordon Bleu’ (pseudonym of Emilie Lebour-Fawssett) treats of All Branches of Cookery, Confectionery and Bread, Suitable for Public Dinners, Clubs, Small Family Parties, Balls, Routs, Luncheons, Garden Parties, Suppers, &c. Provenance: Contemporary ink stamp of W. Foulsham & Co., Publisher’s, London. to title page.
Reference: Gabler, Wine into Words, G11790. Driver, Cookery Books Published in Britain 1875-1914, 37.1.
Octavo (book size 19x13.2cm), pp. 496. In publisher’s burgundy cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt and black, upper panel decorated in black and lettered in gilt, rear panel decorated in blind, olive-brown coated endpapers, all edges trimmed. Condition: Near fine, light marks to endpapers, in very good cloth, minor wear to corners and spine ends, one or two marks to panels, spine a little sunned but gilt strong and bright. Ref: 112302 Price: HK$ 10,000
The First Part ‘By Bacchus’ treats of Home Brewing; The Manufacture of Wines, Spirits, Liqueurs and Cordials Without Distillation - The Preparation and Manipulation of, with the Newest Names and Styles of Mixing and Dressing American Drinks, Suitable for Licensed and Non-Licensed Houses, Garden Parties, Clubs, Temperance Fetes, Bazaars, &c,.
The Second Part ‘By Cordon Bleu’ (pseudonym of Emilie Lebour-Fawssett) treats of All Branches of Cookery, Confectionery and Bread, Suitable for Public Dinners, Clubs, Small Family Parties, Balls, Routs, Luncheons, Garden Parties, Suppers, &c. Provenance: Contemporary ink stamp of W. Foulsham & Co., Publisher’s, London. to title page.
Reference: Gabler, Wine into Words, G11790. Driver, Cookery Books Published in Britain 1875-1914, 37.1.
Octavo (book size 19x13.2cm), pp. 496. In publisher’s burgundy cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt and black, upper panel decorated in black and lettered in gilt, rear panel decorated in blind, olive-brown coated endpapers, all edges trimmed. Condition: Near fine, light marks to endpapers, in very good cloth, minor wear to corners and spine ends, one or two marks to panels, spine a little sunned but gilt strong and bright. Ref: 112302 Price: HK$ 10,000