Printing was considered vulgar and only for the poor. Many aristocratic
bibliophiles refused to disgrace their collections with the presence of a
non-manuscript text. It fell to the lower classes to recognize the importance
of the printing press. And they did - by the end of the fifteenth century,
more than one thousand printers had printed between eight and ten million
copies of more than forty thousand book titles.
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