The Fable of the Bees Part II. By the Author of the First

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Mandeville, Bernard de. The Fable of the Bees Part II. By the Author of the First. London: Printed and Sold by J Roberts, 1730. Second Edition. Rebacked 18th Century Full Calf. Very Good. pp. xx, 315, (26) index, (i) pubs. ads. First published by Roberts the previous year. Despite its somewhat misleading title this is an entirely new poem along with Mandeville’s preface which rebuffs his detractors alerted to the premises of the original work by its republication in 1723 along with an ‘Essay on Charity and Charity Schools,’ and a ‘Search into the Nature of Society’. F.A. Hayek observed that “the decisive importance of Mandeville in the history of economics, long overlooked or appreciated only by authors, is now beginning to be recognized. Although the fundamental ideas of de Mandeville’s work are already implied in the original poem of 1705, the decisive elaboration and especially his full account of the origin of the division of labor, of money, and of language occur only in Part II of the Fable” (Hazlitt, 114). Plain paneled spine with gilt-ruled raised bands & title. New end papers with armorial bookplate relaid onto front pastedown.