Arbuthnot, John [Title in Greek.] Know yourself. A poem London 1734
[Arbuthnot, John.] [In Greek: Gnothi seaton.] Know your self. A poem. London: printed for J. Tonson, 1734. (4), 8 pp. 4to, disbound. First edition. An important philosophical poem, published just before the author's death. Arbuthnot, a physician by profession and a wit by reputation, was for many years a close friend of Pope and Swift; when this poem appeared he had just retired in ailing health to Hampstead, where he died some months later. A preliminary "advertisement" here notes that the poem had been written "several years ago;" in 1748 Dodsley included it in his Collection of Poems by Several Hands. "It contains some thoughts of Monsieur Pascal, which cannot make it less acceptable to the publick." A very good copy of the only separately-published poem which can be ascribed with certainty to Arbuthnot. Very uncommon. Foxon A290; CBEL II, 1051.
£1250
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