December 19, 2006

Item of the Day: Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees (1723)

Full Title:
The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits. The second edition, enlarged with many additions. As also an essay on Charity and Charity-Schools and a Search into the Nature of Society. By Bernard Mandeville. Printed in London for Edmund Parker at the Bible and Crown in Lombard Street, 1723.
The Introduction:
One of the [...]