The Canapé Book

£60.00

MAIDEN, Rachel Bell | SMITH WAKEFIELD, Lucina (decorations by) SKU: 20246

London & New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936.

Reissue of the first edition, first published in 1934. Profusely illustrated with charming black and white decorations by Lucina Smith Wakefield. Original yellow cloth with paper label to upper board depicting cocktail and highball glasses. Boards a touch soiled and scattered stains to contents and fore-edge of the text block. A VG copy. Includes recipes for hundred of popular cocktail nibbles such as Sea Legs, Riding Around a Rogue, Italian Kiss, Three Little Pigs, Snapping Tortoise.