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THE FABLE OF THE BEES:

OR, Private Vices, Public Benefits.

With an ESSAY on

Charity and Charity Schools.

AND

A Search into the Nature of Society.

To which is added,

A VINDICATION of the BOOK

From the slanders original: "Aspersions" contained in a

Presentment of the Grand Jury of Middlesex, and an abusive Letter to Lord C. Lord C. refers to John Carteret, 2nd Earl Carteret, a prominent statesman of the era.

LONDON:

Printed for J. Tonson Jacob Tonson was a famous English bookseller and publisher known for his editions of Milton and Shakespeare., at Shakespeare's Head,

opposite original: "over-against" Catherine Street in the

Strand. 1724.