Proposals for printing a very curious discourse, in two volumes in quarto, intitled, Psuedologia Politikē, or, A treatise of the art of political lying
Subtitle: with an abstract of the first volume of the said treatise
Publisher: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall
Published: 1712
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: English Political satire; Early works to 1800
Notes: With half title.

"Psuedololgia politikē" in the title is transliterated for the Greek.

Attributed to John Arbuthnot and occasionally also attributed to Jonathan Swift. Cf. NUC Pre-1956, ESTC.

Publisher's advertisement on p. [1]-[2].

The proposed treatise was apparently never published, although later An Essay on the art of political lying was published and is commonly attributed to Jonathan Swift. Cf. Teerink, The Bibiography of the writings of Jonathan Swift ; NUC Pre-1956.

Signatures: A-C⁴.

Also erroneously ascribed to Swift (Teerink 875), by confusion with his "Essay on the art of political lying" in The Examiner, no. 15, to which Arbuthnot is slightly indebted. Swift himself ascribed the Proposals to Arbuthnot. Cf. L.M. Beattie, John Arbuthnot (1935), p. 297-8.

"An account of the second volume of this excellent treatise, is reserv'd for another time" (p. 22); no more published.

Also published under title: The art of political lying.

ESTC T075422