Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide 1887 Reprint 

How to mix all kinds, plain and fancy. drinks. This book contains 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 in endless variety.

This book in its various reprints is accepted to be the first real cocktail book, and includes such classics as Mint Julep and the Daisy. It was first known as "How to Mix Drinks", or the "Bon Vivant's Companion" and published in 1862 with "A Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liquors, Fancy Syrups, etc" by Christian Schultz attached at the back, since any good bartender was supposed to know how to do both mix and make.

Paperback - 130 pages