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2) Entries Mentioning Size or Quality of Paper

The second category consists of forty-five entries in which Strahan designated the size or quality of paper used in a job, but did not list any charge for the paper in his billing. Again, it seems obvious that the customer supplied the paper and that Strahan had some special reason for going to the trouble of listing the kind of paper used. Eighteen of the entries show one of the special reasons: a split run

of paper. The customer split his run between a majority of books on ordinary paper, usually common Demy, and a small number of books on large paper, usually common Royal, to be given to subscribers or influential people. Though common Royal would cost the customer more than Demy because of its size, it had the advantage of giving the impression of quality by allowing a large margin, and it did not cost as much as a finer quality of larger paper would have cost him.[4] A typical entry reads        

	Guthrie's Grammar 4to
1779
Novr.	Printing Do. 101 Sheets, No. 750 Demy & 250 Royal &c.mmat; £1:6:0 per Sheet	[£]131.6.0
		[Ledger F 25r]

The first two categories, then, are composed of seventy-two entries in which the customer supplied paper for the job. The third and fourth categories which follow offer a different kind of evidence, for their 559 entries indicate contracts in which Strahan provided the paper.