The dataset 'Book production in Holland 1470 - 1800' consists of an excel file with two sheets. The first sheet contains estimates on the book production in Holland, as well as some indicators on bookproduction in the Low Countries as a whole. The second excel sheet lists number of bookprinters, average prices and average numbers per printed edition. The dataset 'Book prices in Europe 1275-1450' originaly forms part of the collection of Bibliometrics, which has been dowloaded from the Centre of Global Economics website (http://www.cgeh.nl/global-historical-bibliometrics) in september 2017. The original name of the datafile was 'data CGEH working paper 55 Books do not die.xlsx'. Bibliometrics, the science that occupies itself with the application of mathematical and statistical methods to books and other media of communication (Pritchard, 1969), is a field that can be quite fruitful too for other sciences interested in quantitative time-series on the development of ideas and the processes of their ...