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
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Oxford : The Clarendon Press, [1957].
- Note
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Part I of the Fable, from the 6th edition, 1732, consists of the original poem, the "Grumbling hive: or, Knaves turnd 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.
"Edition [of] 1924 reprinted lithographically".
With reproductions of original title-pages.
- Physical Description
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2 v. :
front., facsims., geneal. tables ;
23 cm.
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