SC - More on 'Nef' (including a citation)

[James Prescott]

At 17:13 -0500 2001-02-22, Jenne Heise wrote:

> There is no such sketch in the 1974 edition, or the 1991 edition.
> The note on the 1991 edition from Academy Chicago Publishers says
> "Originally published: Food & drink in Britain from the Stone Age to
> recent times. London : Constable, 1973. With new introd. and
> bibliography." Which leads me to believe that the 1991 edition was not
> extensively revised. 

> I strongly suspect that this information did NOT come from C. Anne Wilson,
> or at least from no edition of _Food and Drink in Britain_, but from
> another source. (As a librarian we see this a lot: I call it 'citation
> transfer'-- where one citation attaches itself to your notes from another
> source. It's not uncommon: librarians estimate that 30% of scholarly
> citations are inaccurate in some way and even outright wrong.)

Fascinating.


> Fabulous Feasts appears to have come out in 1976 originally-- does someone
> have access to that edition? Please check p. 58 and see if the sketch is
> there.

Nope, nor on any other page.  Also, the italic type face in the 
photocopy does not match the italic type face used in _Fabulous 
Feasts_.

Thorvald