Pettegree's Summary of Printed Outputs Throughout Europe, 1450-1600

In The Book in the Renaissance (2010) Andrew Pettegree published on page 357 "Appendix: A Summary of Printed Outputs throughout Europe, 1450-1600." The statistics, gathered from the Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC), of which he is the Project Director, distinguish between books printed in vernaculars, and those printed in Latin or Greek, which Pettegree called "scholarly" texts. One of Pettegree's significant conclusions from the data is that relatively few "scholarly" or Latin texts were printed in England. His statistics are quoted below: 

                                             " Vernacular         Scholarly     Total

France                                     40,500              35,000        75,500

Italy                                        48,400              39,600        88,000

Germany                                 37,600              56,400        94,000

Switzerland                               2,530                8,470        11,000

The Low Countries                  17,896              14,021        31,917

Subtotal                                 146,926            153,491      300,417

Percentage of Total                81.99%            92.48%       87.03%

England                                   13,463                1,664       15,127

Spain                                       12,960                5.040        18,000

Scandinavia                             4,980                 4,980         9,960

Subtotal                                 32,276               12,477        44,753  

Percentage of Total                 18.01%               7.52%      12.97%         

Total                                    179,202           165,968    345,170 "