The fable of the bees:
or, Private vices, publick benefits.
By Bernard Mandeville. With a commentary critical, historical, and explanatory by F. B. Kaye.

Description

Main Author: Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.
Related Names: Kaye, Frederick Benjamin, 1892-1930, ed.
Language(s): English
Published: Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924.
Subjects: Charity-schools.
Virtue.
Ethics.
Note: Part I of the Fable, from the 6th edition, 1732, consists of the original poem, the "Grumbling hive: or, Knaves turnd̕ honest", first published in 1705, with prose commentary: An enquiry into the origin of moral virtue; Remarks; An essay on charity and charity-schools; a Search into the nature of society; a Vindication of the book. Part II, from the first edition, 1729, consists of preface and six prose dialogues, amplifying and defending his doctrines.
With reproductions of original title-pages.
"Errata" slip inserted: v. 2.
Physical Description: 2 v. front., facsims., general. tab. 23 cm.
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