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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 153551, member: 25&quot;]Paper used to have lots of names for a wealth of sizes.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://home.clara.net/brianp/paper.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://home.clara.net/brianp/paper.html" rel="nofollow">http://home.clara.net/brianp/paper.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Your publisher probably uses the term double elphant loosely or because it sounds big and archaic. They were, after all, Americans.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>To complete the picture, once the paper was used in books, the actual book size was described by how many times the sheet used was subdivided, hence a crown sheet folded in half was a crown folio, down through quarto, octavo, hexadecimo (usually written 16mo. and 32mo.</p><p><br /></p><p>All more or less forgotten nowadays. How much grander to order a quire of grand eagle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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