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             Deutsch: Geschätzte  Buchdruckproduktion in Europa von ca. 1450 bis 1800. Ein Buch ist definiert als ein Druckwerk von mehr als 49 Seiten. 
            English: Estimated output of  printed books in Europe from ca. 1450 to 1800. A book is defined as printed matter containing more than 49 pages. 
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           16 December 2011 | 
          
          
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            Tentotwo  Data from: Buringh, Eltjo; van Zanden, Jan Luiten: "Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries", The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 69, No. 2 (2009), pp. 409–445 (417, table 2) | 
          
         
         
        
         
        
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\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage[super]{nth}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\pgfplotstableread{
Century Manuscripts Books
6       13552           nan
7       10639           nan
8       43702           nan
9       201742  nan
10      135637  nan
11      212030  nan
12      768721  nan
13      1761951 nan
14      2746951 nan
15      4999161 12589000
16       nan            217444000
17      nan             531941000
18      nan             983874000
}\datatable
 
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        minor y tick num=3,
        axis lines*=left,
        width=12cm, height=8cm, enlarge x limits=0.25,
        ymin=0, ymax=1e9, scaled y ticks=false,
        yticklabel={\pgfmathprintnumber[fixed, set thousands separator=\,]{\tick}},
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        ybar=-10pt, xtick={15,...,19}, xticklabel={\pgfmathparse{int(\tick)}\nth{\pgfmathresult}},
        xlabel=Century, xlabel style={yshift=-1ex},ylabel=Number\\ of Copies,
         ylabel style={rotate=-90, align=left, anchor=east, xshift=-5ex, name=ylabel},
        title={European Output of Printed Books ca. 1450--1800$^{\text{\tiny{*}}}$},
        title style={font=\large\bfseries, align=centre,yshift=1ex}
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\node at (current axis.below south) [anchor=north, align=left, font=\tiny] {$^*$without Southeast Europe (Ottoman realm) and Russia};
 
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