Fable Bees by Bernard Mandeville: Signed (2 results)
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Published by Printed for Edmund Parker at the Bible and Crown in Lombard-Street., 1723
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Full-Leather. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Second Edition. Second edition. Lacks front board and spine label, some loss along edges of rear board and spine, leather dry and rubbed, title page loose with some loss along edges. 1723 Full-Leather. [vi], 428, [11] pp. Full calf with hand-tooled design, five raised spine bands. A coll…ection of essays, including discussion of the origin of moral virtue, the nature of charity and society, etc. The work comprises a satirical poem entitled The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves turn'd Honest, which was first published anonymously in 1705; a prose discussion of the poem, called 'Remarks'; and an essay, An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue. In 1723, a second edition (the one offered here) was published with two new essays ('An Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools' and 'A Search into the Nature of Society'). In the original portion of the work, Mandeville controversially asserts that self-interest is the lynchpin of a properly functioning society, and that practicing honesty and virtue, while objectively desirable, in practice leads to negative outcomes. His theories influenced Scottish Enlightenment thinkers like Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith, as well as economic constructs like the division of labor, laissez-faire capitalism, etc. Mandeville also wrote A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Passions, which Garrison-Morton 10703 describes as: "Probably the first psychiatric self-help book. Hunter and Macalpine call Mandeville's work 'the first book on minor mental maladies 'writ by way of Information to Patients' rather than 'to teach other Practitioners'. [Mandeville] gave a graphic account of his own attack of melancholy when he developed the delusion that he had syphilis' (Hunter & Macalpine, p. 296). Signed by author.
Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1924
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. One of 25 presentation copies printed on India paper and bound in the publisher's original green cloth over boards as two volumes in one, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Spine is slightly faded but legible. Lightly rubbed at the edges and extremities. All edges gilt. Facsimile illustrations. Wit…h a commentary, critical, historical, and explanatory by F. B. Kaye. From the library of R.S. Crane with a signed and dated presentation to him by the author on the ffep. Signed.
