". . . in the early sixteenth century half of all the books published in Europe were printed in Venice" (Magno, Bound in Venice. The Serene Republic and the Dawn of the Book [2013] 16).
"The boom peaks between 1526 and 1550, when Venice publishes almost three-fourths of the editions printed in Italy and half of all those produced on the continent. In the ensuing twenty-five years this percentage would decline to a still-respectable 61 percent" (Magno, op. cit., 38).