It looks very tatty, but the dust jacket shown left is apparently a rare variant featuring a classic 1937 design by Alex Jardine for a 1927 first ‘Coronation’ edition of the Café Royal Cocktail Book.
A collection of cocktail recipes compiled by William J Tarling, head bartender at the Café Royal and president of the then recently formed United Kingdom Bartenders’ Guild, the book is illustrated by Frederic Carter.