Proposals for printing a very curious discourse, in two volumes in quarto, intitled, Pseudologia politik?; or, a treatise of the art of political lying, with an abstract of the first volume of the said treatise.

People / Organizations

• John Arbuthnot (Author)

Imprint

Edinburgh: printed by James Watson and sold at his shop, 1712.

Publication year

1712-1712

ESTC No.

T171029

Grub Street ID

208688

Description

23,[1]p. ; 8⁰

Note

Attributed to John Arbuthnot. Sometimes also attributed to Jonathan Swift.

Probably not published.

Uncontrolled note

The work in Teerink-Scouten 875 (Section vi Doubtful). A work entitled 'A treatise on the art of political lying' is included in the 1758 Dublin edition of Swift's works (Teerink 98). NUC enters this work under Arbuthnot, GK under proposals. The words "Pseudologia politik? are probably transliterated from Greek