* In 1862 Thomas finished the Bartender's Guide (alternately titled How to Mix Drinks or The Bon-Vivant's Companion), the first cocktail book ever published in the United States.
This is a nostalgic and delicious homage to a drinking era that is gone but not forgotten. This drink recipe book is probably the most famous bartenders' and cocktail book of all times, and it was the first real cocktail book ever published in the United States. This is the most complete first edition * A reprint of the very first 1862 edition of Jerry Thomas' Bartenders Guide ' How To Mix Drinks or A Bon Vivant's Companion '.
