3) “626 editions of the Bible, in which 198 were in the language of the laity, had issued from the press, with the sanction and at the instance of the Church, in the countries where she reigned supreme, before the first Protestant version of the scriptures was sent forth into the world.” (Where We Got The Bible)
As a good Catholic, I'd like to see the bibliography for this. If such bibles exist they must have been incredibly expensive.
Not as much as you think. The Paris Bible in Latin, which was published in the 13th Century, was plentiful enough to have become a stock reference for the thousands of itirnerant friars who went about preaching to the masses. Small enough to fit into the pocket of their habits, it was one of the first books to look like the ones we are familiar with. The quality of printing is amazing. I saw a copy in a church museum in Dallas. More than 700 years old, it looked very modern. Hard to believe it was handwritten.