Joost Kloek and Wijnand Mijnhardt (2004), 'The Printed Word', in Dutch Culture in a European Perspective, Vol. 2: 1800: Blueprints for a National Community, Assen: Royal Van Gorcum; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 73-92, 549, 558-59.

According to one rough estimate, 200,000 books were published in the Republic in the eighteenth century, as opposed to only 100,000 in the seventeenth century. Yet the population increased only from 1.9 million in 1650 to 2.1 million around 1800. In other words, almost twice as many books appeared per head of the population in the eighteenth century as in the preceding century. These figures relate to titles. Whether edition sizes grew, remained stable, or declined in this period is unknown, and extant records are so rare as to render such information virtually unattainable. A sensational growth in edition sizes is improbable, if only because the period witnessed no major innovations in the production of printed matter. The wooden presses in general use were much the same as the model that Gutenberg had invented around 1450.