The fable of the bees, or, Private vices, publick benefits : with An essay on charity and charity-schools, and A search into the nature of society.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for J. Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head, over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand,
MDCCXXV [1725]
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| Edition: | The fourth edition / |
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| Item Description: | Anonymous. By Bernard de Mandeville. Title enclosed in double border; head- and end-pieces; initial. Page 400 misnumbered 352. "Mandeville published in 1705 a doggerel poem called "The grumbling hive, or Knaves turned honest" ... In 1714 it was republished anonymously with an "Inquiry into the origin of moral virtue," and a series of notes, under the title "The fable of the bees, or Private vices publick benefits."; see Dictionary of National Biography. The abusive letter written by Mandeville, signed Theophilus Philo-Britannus, first appeared in the London Journal for July 1723. Includes index (pages [429]-[440]). The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 16 unnumbered pages, 477 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (8vo) |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. |