"This has often made me compare the Virtues of great Men to your large China Jars: they make a fine Shew, and are Ornamental even to a Chimney; one would by the Bulk they appear in, and the Value that is set upon 'em, think they might be very useful, but look into a thousand of them, and you'll find nothing in them but Dust and Cobwebs."
The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits.
16 entries in ESTC (1714, 1723, 1724, 1725, 1728, 1729, 1732, 1733, 1734, 1740, 1750, 1755, 1755, 1772, 1795).<br>
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<u>The Grumbling Hive</u> was printed as a pamphlet in 1705. 1st edition of <u>The Fable of the Bees</u> published in 1714, 2nd edition in 1723 (with additions, essays "On Charity Schools" and "Nature of Society"). Part II, first published in 1729. Kaye's text based on 6th edition of 1732.<br>
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<u>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.</u> (London: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane, 1714). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW121179686&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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See <u>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.</u> (London: Printed for Edmund Parker at the Bible and Crown in Lomb-rd-Street, 1723). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB126400115&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Bernard Mandeville, <u>The Fable of the Bees</u>, ed. F.B. Kaye, 2 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1988). Orig. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. Reading first volume in Liberty Fund paperback; also searching online ed. &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Mandeville0162/FableOfBees/0014-01_Bk.html#hd_lf14v1.head.037">Link to OLL</a>&gt;<br>
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I am also working with another print edition: <u>The Fable of the Bees</u>, ed. F. B. Kaye, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957). 