Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and the front board.

• F.B.A. provides an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available.

A quality edition of a great Victorian drink recipe book with many worthwhile if not unusual drink recipes.

This 1869 recipe book Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks, by William Terrington, cocktails are described as: ‘Cocktails are compounds very much used by “early birds” to fortify the inner man, and by those who like their consolations hot and strong.’

A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink. Most commonly, cocktails are either a single spirit or a combination of spirits mixed with other ingredients, such as juices, flavored syrups, tonic water, shrubs, and bitters. Cocktails vary widely across regions of the world, and many websites publish both original recipes and their own interpretations of older and more famous cocktails.