Index Introduction Main Text Bibliography
Abbreviations:
EB: Encyclopaedia Brittanica.
EBrO: Encyclopaedia Brittanica Online.
EEBO: Early English Books Online.
LION: Literature Online.
OED: Oxford English Dictionary.
ODNB: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
WE: World Encyclopedia.
This electronic documentary edition of Edward Whitaker’s Directions for Brewing Malt Liquors . . . With A Satyr Upon Brandy By Another Hand is the project of a collaborative senior undergraduate seminar at the University of Saskatchewan. The student editors are Michael De Jong, Ricki Elder, Wendy Gillis, Lindsey Hritzuk, Cassandra Matthies, Joel Salt, Jenn Sharp, and Lisa Worobec. The final web design is by Joel Salt.
The edition consists of an annotated semi-diplomatic transcription of the Cambridge University Library's copy of the 1700 first edition of Directions for Brewing (included in the Early English Books Online collection). The first edition is the only one of the book’s five editions for which Whitaker is likely to have had any contact with the printer. Our edition also includes a biographical, historical and critical introduction, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies.
There are two primary goals for this edition. The first is to provide a readable and accessible text of a valuable resource about brewing, printing and political culture at the beginning of the Eighteenth Century. The second is to preserve, as much as possible, the character of the early printed book. We have, accordingly, provided two “views” of the text. The “print view” offers continuous text suitable for printing, and facilitates “cut-and-paste” reproduction of substantial portions of the text; the “page view” offers an electronic quasi-facsimile of the printed book.
Spelling and punctuation have not been modernized in either view, though the most egregious compositor’s errors (e.g. inverted characters) have been silently emended. The long "∫" and "vv" have been silently modernised to "s" and "w" to help readability and to make valid search terms. The “page view” preserves page breaks, signatures and catchwords, though the lineation of the prose text has been sacrificed in the name of readability.
Lewis Stiles provided generous advice on Latin translations and quotations; Steve Cavan of Paddock Wood Brewing was equally generous with his knowledge of brewing history; and Jon Bath of the Humanities and Fine Arts Digital Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan provided crucial technical assistance.
Ronald W. Cooley and Allison Muri, Supervising Editors