[Milton-L] arguments

[John T. Shawcross]

The arguments were added to the fourth (1668), fifth (1669), and  
sixth (1669) title page issues of the first edition of PL. There are,  
of course, ten books and thus ten arguments. The printer Samuel  
Simmons apparently requested them. Added also were "The Verse" and  
"The Errata." In the fourth and fifth issues there is also a note  
from the Printer to the Reader explaining the additions; it does not  
appear with the sixth issue. For the second edition (1674) the  
arguments for books 7 and 10 were split in two because those books  
were split in two: 7 = 7-8;  (8 = 9) and 9 = 10); 10 = 11-12.

John