Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by William Quiller Orchardson, William Corden the Elder and John Watson Gordon. Drinks of every kind and how to make them, with a history of each and opinions about most: punches, cups, cocktails, the club claret, the abominations of the American bar. Edward Spencer wrote as "Nathaniel Gubbins" and was a journalist of the tavern and the racecourse. It is a period portrait of English drinking in 1899 and a working recipe book that still functions. Fifty-nine plates, from Jan Steen to Millais, gather the classical, biblical and tavern scenes that drinking has always drawn around itself.