Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The fable of the bees, or, Private vices, publick benefits : 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 the place of moral virtues.
Call Number
RHT 18th-355
EX Lapidus 1.11
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pv63g099t
Publisher
London : Printed for J. Roberts ..., 1714.
Language
English
Date Created
1714
Extent
[24], 228, [2] p. ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959 2010
References
ESTC T77579
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Attributed to Bernard Mandeville by ESTC.
Signatures: A-K¹², L⁶ (I₃ incorrectly signed I₂).
Title within double line border.
Errata on p. [24].
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary full leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ethics—Early works to 1800
Virtue—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count
260

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5a45b142-3ebf-4325-9018-9d5254da9a9e/manifest