Author: Anonymous
Title: And So to Bed. Being the Diary of a Mixer of Cocktails. [with Apologies to Samuel Pepys]
Description: Montreal, Distillers Corporation Seagrams Limited, 1930. Presumed second edition, n. d. (ca 1930 - a smaller edition of 35 pages published earlier and a larger, 60-page one, published in 1933); 6 x 3; pp. [2], 5-40; textured wraps in gray and black, printed in red; lithographed illustrations throughout; a small, curcular tear through middle of spine and textblock strengthened with an extra staple, else minor wear; in very good condition. Titled after British naval administrator Samuel Pepys' eponymous ending of his days' diary entries, the publication contained 30 cocktail recipes, in groups of three to a page and facing an illustration of the particular whiskey used, with various Seagram's products. Each recipe page also included a fictitious diary entry in the style of Samuel Pepys and featured concoctions such as Mamie Taylor, Fifty-Fifty, and V. O. Fizz. The booklet was released as an advertisement for the Seagram Company, a famous Canadian whiskey distillery, which traced its fouding to 1857 and would become the largest owner of alcoholic beverage lines in the world in the 1990s. Quite uncommon, with one copy of this edition at UC Davis and one other copy in the trade. Very good .

Keywords: Cocktails, Canada, Alcohol


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