In that second sense of ‘making visible’, the term(指production), by the mid-eighteenth century, had acquired the status of a technical term in jurisprudence. For example: ‘The books must be produced, as we cannot receive parole evidence of their content’ (1776, from the Oxford English Dictionary).
——produce 与 books 搭配,意思很明确,就是“出版”的含义。由生产、制造引申而来。