Remarks upon A Late book, entituled, The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, Publick Benefits in a Letter to the Author...
London.
Printed for Will. and John Innys, 1724.
First edition.
8vo.
[2], 106pp. Without half-title or final advertisement leaf. Disbound. Heavily foxed.
The first edition of devotional writer and nonjuror William Law's (1686-1761) reply to Dutch physician and moral philosopher Bernard Mandeville's (1670-1733) The Fable of the Bees (1714) in which Law defends morality and virtue versus Mandeville's social theory that man is motivated only by self-interest.
ESTC T78340.
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 15609
