Home Brewed” Wines and Beers and Bartenders’ Guide.
No. 1263. Published by Johnson Smith & Company, Detroit, Michigan, with Canadian imprint Windsor, Ontario. Printed in the U.S.A.
A lively early twentieth-century manual devoted to home production and barroom knowledge, presented under the banner Secrets of the Liquor Trade. The booklet offers complete directions and recipes for making wines, beers, liquors, brandies, cordials, syrups, extracts, and related preparations, alongside practical bartending guidance. The illustrated cover, featuring a period bartender behind the bar, gives the piece strong visual and cultural appeal.
This is a compact, original-era publication associated with the Johnson Smith mail-order catalog tradition, prized today for its Prohibition-era sensibility, graphic design, and insight into informal domestic and commercial drink culture. In very good vintage condition, with a clean, legible cover and intact interior.
Home Brewed” Wines and Beers and Bartenders’ Guide.
No. 1263. Published by Johnson Smith & Company, Detroit, Michigan, with Canadian imprint Windsor, Ontario. Printed in the U.S.A.
A lively early twentieth-century manual devoted to home production and barroom knowledge, presented under the banner Secrets of the Liquor Trade. The booklet offers complete directions and recipes for making wines, beers, liquors, brandies, cordials, syrups, extracts, and related preparations, alongside practical bartending guidance. The illustrated cover, featuring a period bartender behind the bar, gives the piece strong visual and cultural appeal.
This is a compact, original-era publication associated with the Johnson Smith mail-order catalog tradition, prized today for its Prohibition-era sensibility, graphic design, and insight into informal domestic and commercial drink culture. In very good vintage condition, with a clean, legible cover and intact interior.
