The fable of the bees, or, Private vices, publick benefits
By: containing, several discourses, to demonstrate, that human frailties, during the degeneracy of mankind, may be turn'd to the advantage of the civil society, and made to supply thplace of moral virtues.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 12031.
Publisher: Printed for J. Roberts
Published: 1714
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Ethics; Virtue
Other titles: Grumbling hive; Knaves turned honest; Private vices, publick benefits
Notes: Page 139 misnumbered 319.

Includes table of contents.

"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 public benefits.'" - Dictionary of national biography.

A second part was added to later editions.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 12031)

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