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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
16 unnumbered pages, 477 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (8vo)
The grumbling hive, or, Knaves turn'd honest -- An enquiry into the origin of moral virtue -- Remarks -- An essay on charity and charity-schools -- A search into the nature of society -- Index -- A vindication of the book, from the aspersions contain'd in a presentment of the grand jury of Middlesex, and an abusive letter to Lord C.
Title enclosed in double border; head- and end-pieces; initial.
"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.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Vindication of the book from the aspersions contain'd in a presentment of the Grand-Jury of Middlesex
London : Printed for J. Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head, over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand, MDCCXXV [1725]