| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Bernard de Mandeville | The Fable of the Bees: or, private vices, publick benefits | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...' | Thomas Green | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...' | Thomas Green | Bernard Mandeville | Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1938:
'I am reading for the first time a book which I think a very goo... | Virginia Woolf | Bernard Mandeville | The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "The fallacy of that book [Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees"] is, that Mandeville defines neither vices nor b... | Samuel Johnson | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had in his Youth been a great Reader of Mandeville, and was very watchful for the Stains of original corruption bo... | Samuel Johnson | Bernard Mandeville | | Print: Book |