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This bibliography is an updating of the one that appeared in M,SU, 115-17.  If you are reading it on the Web, additions are highlighted in red; if you are reading a print out, look for a superscript "n" after the year.

I am deeply grateful to Brian Rea for his help in this first updating (Aug. 1999).  There are sixteen additions. I am also grateful to Fernando Castellon for four additions also in red. For these, a "c" appears after the superscript "n."

To repeat a few words from the book just cited: the earliest reference to the Martini occurs in a bartender's manual of 1884; the earliest reference in literature is in a short story in 1896.  For a decade or so of its history, then, the Martini is known only from bartender's manuals.

An asterisk marks books that have disappeared and have not been seen by any living person known to me.  An asterisk also marks a few books that someone else has seen and told me about; I have so indicated.  (I corresponded in 1981 with the J. F. Hansman to whom I refer.  He was working on a history of the cocktail.  I have been unsuccessful in my attempt to reestablish contact with him.)

Cookbooks and books of household management that contain drink recipes are another useful source for the early history of the Martini.  A couple of them are cited below.  My bibliography is likely to be quite incomplete in this respect.

The arrangement is by date.  All authors and titles that were included in this bibliography as it appeared in M,SU were also listed in the Index of that book.

1862.  Thomas, Jerry. How To Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion. New York.  Cf. 1876 and 1887.  Only the 1887 ed. contains a Martini recipe.
1866.  Monzert, L. The Independent Liquorist. New York.
1869.^nc  H. Porter and G. E. Roberts.  Drinking Cups and Their Customs.  London: John Van Voorst.
1869.  Haney, Jesse. Steward and Barkeeper's Manual. New York.
1869.*  Anon. The Steward and Bartender's Manual.  New York.  Seen by J. F. Hansman.

1871.* Anon. Bartender's Ready Reference.  Place?  Seen by J. F. Hansman.
1871.ⁿ Ricket, E. and C. Thomas.  Gentleman's Table Guide: Being Practical Recipes for Wine Cups, American Drinks, Punches, Cordials, Summer and Winter Beverages.  London.
1876. Thomas, Jerry. How To Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion. New York. Cf. 1862 and 1887.

1880.  Engel, Leo. American and Other Drinks.  London.
1882.*  Johnson, Harry. New and Improved Illustrated Bartender's Manual or How To Mix Drinks of the Present Style. New York.  Seen by J. F. Hansman.
1883.  McDonough, P. McDonough's Bar-keeper's Guide. Rochester, N.Y.
1884.  Barnes, Albert. The Complete Bartender. Philadelphia.
1884.  Byron, O. H. The Modern Bartender's Guide. New York.
1884.  Gibson, J. W.  Scientific Barkeeping. Buffalo.
1884.  Naber, Alf and Brune.  Catalogue and Bartender'sGuide.  San Francisco.
1884.*  Winter, G.  How to Mix Drinks.  New York.
1885.ⁿ Bacchus and Cordon Bleu.  New Guide for the Hotel, Bar, Restaurant, Butler, and Chef.  London.
1886.* Laird, W. H.  American Bartender.  St. John's, New Brunswick
1887.ⁿ Paul, Charlie. American and Other Drinks.  London.
1887. Thomas, Jerry.  How To Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion. New York. Cf. 1862 and 1876.
1888.  Johnson, Harry.  New and Improved Illustrated Bartender'sManual or How To Mix Drinks of the Present Style.  New York.
1888.*  Concklin, J.  The Bartender.  N.Y.
1889 or earlier.ⁿ  Anon.  Bar Recipe Book: Drinks: How to Mix and Serve.  Portland, OR.
1889.*  Casey, E. M.  The Mixologist and  Compounder.  San Francisco.

1891.  Boothby, William T.  Cocktail Boothby's American Bartender.  San Francisco.
1891.  Wehman, H. J.  Wehman's Bartender's Guide.  New York.
1891.*  Newman, Lewis P.  Newman's Book on Scientific Barkeeping.  Fayetteville NC.
1891.*  Peck, J. E.  Fancy Drinks and How To Mix Them.  N.Y.
1892.ⁿ De Salis, Mrs. Drinks à la Mode: Cups and Drinks of Every Kind for Every Season.  London.
1892.  The Only William (A. William Schmidt). The Flowing Bowl: When and What To Drink.  New York.
1893.  Ranhofer, Charles. The Epicurean.  Chicago, Ill. The copy I saw was published in 1920, but it contained a letter by Mr. Delmonico dated 1893, recommending the book (a cookbook, with a section on drinks).
1895.ⁿ Davies, Frederick and Seymour.  Drinks of All Kinds.  London.
1895.  Green, H. W.  Mixed Drinks. Indianapolis, IN.
1895.  Kappeler, George J.  Modern American Drinks.  Akron, OH.
1895.  Lawlor, C. F.  The Mixologist.  Cincinnati.
1895.ⁿ Miller, R.C. The American Bar-Tender.  St. Paul, MN.
1896.  Lamore, H.  The Bartender.  New York.
1896.  Stiles, H. W.  The Chapin and Gore Manual.  Chicago.
1896.  Stuart, Thomas.  Stuart's Fancy Drinks.  Reprint, New York: Excelsior Publishing House, 1904.
1898.  Anon.  Cocktails: How to Make Them.  Providence, RI.
1898.  Haywood, J. L.  Mixology. Wilmington, Delaware.
1899.^nc  M. J. Finnigan.  The Reminder.  Worcester, MA: Miles F. King, Co., Printers and Designers.
1899.*ⁿ Spencer, Edward. The Flowing Bowl:A Treatise on Drinks of All Kinds and of All Periods, etc.  London and New York.  Seen by Leah Edmunds.  Also now by me.

1900.  [Knowles, Frederic Lawrence.] The Cocktail Book: A Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen.  Boston: L.C. Page and Co.
1901.ⁿ Sheridan, J.E. The Complete Buffet Manual or How to Mix Fancy Drinks.  Chicago.
1902.ⁿ Anon.  National Bartender's Guide.  Danville, IL
1902* or earlier.  Didier, Jack.  Title is either Reminder or Didier's Reminder.  Binghampton, NY.
1902.ⁿ Fouquet, Louis. Bariana: Recueil de toutes boissons américains et anglaises.  Paris. I have learned (8/01) from Fernando Castellon that there was an earlier edition, in 1896.
1903.  Daly, Tim.  Daly's Bartender's Encyclopedia.  Worcester, MA.
1903.ⁿ Lewis, V.B. The Complete Buffet Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Drinks.  Chicago: M.A. Donahue and Co.  From Sheridan 1901.
1903.^nc  John Macqueen.  The Cocktail Book (title on cover) / Manuel du Cocktail: Un Vade Mecum" pour Gentlemen (title on title page).  London: John Macqueen. Castellon has told me that Macqueen is the author, though, in the images that Castellon sent me, I see Macqueen only as the publisher.
1904.^nc  John Applegreen.  Applegreen's Bar Book.  2nd edition (1st ed. 1899). Chicago: The Hotel Monthly.
1904.  Lowe, Paul E.  Drinks As They Are Mixed.  Chicago: Frederick J. Drake and Co.
1904.ⁿ Southworth, May E.  One Hundred and One Beverages.  San Francisco.
1905.ⁿ Roos, Henry. New and Standard Mixed Drinks.  New York.
1906.ⁿ Anon.  A Book of Recipes: How to Mix Fancy Drinks.  Chicago.
1906. Beeton, Isabella.  Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. London.
1906.*  Muckensturm, L. J.  Louis' Mixed Drinks.  Boston.
1906.ⁿ Phillips, A. Lyman. A Bachelor's Cupboard.  Boston.
1907.ⁿ Newman, Frank P.  American-Bar.  Paris.
1908.ⁿ Groshuko, J.A. Jack's Manual.  New York.
1909.ⁿ Seutter, Karl A. Der Mixologist: Illustriertes internationales Getränke-Buch.  Leipzig.

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