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A: Innenstadt I, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany

Andrew Pettegree Estimates that About 350,000 Separate Titles Were Printed by 1600

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"By the year 1600, 150 years after Gutenberg's Bible ws first exhibited at the Frankfurt Fair, Europe's presses had cranked out something in the region of 350,000 separate titles: a cumulative total of some one hundred million individual copies" (Pettegree, Andrew, The Book in the Renaissance [2010] xv-xvi).

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