Jack's Manual of Recipes for Fancy Mixed Drinks and How to Serve Them -- A Pre-Prohibition Cocktail Book

Here's another of the classic cocktail books we brought back into print. I'm rather happy with the look of this one. The image I selected for the cover is by George Barbier, who was an amazing French illustrator of the early twentieth century.

Here's the book description:

This tasty collection of classic cocktails was first published by J. A. Grohusko in the early days of the twentieth century as Jack's Manual on the Vintage and Production, Care and Handling of Wines, Liquors, Etc. — A Handbook of Information for Home, Club, or Hotel: Recipes for Fancy Mixed Drinks and When and How to Serve. In this facsimile reprint, you'll find early versions of such classics as the Absinthe Drip and the Mint Julep, as well as less-common drinks, including Gin and Molasses and the Hot Brandy Sling. Try them all — you'll be sure to find a new favorite recipe within these pages.

Jack's Manual is part of the Classic Cocktail Guides and Retro Bartender Books series published by Kalevala Books, a small publishing company I started almost (gulp) twenty years ago.