This early printed volume of Livy's History of Rome retains an interesting feature of bookbinding in the early sixteenth century. The book could be referred to as a 'paperback' as it is bound with a vellum leaf from a fourteenth-century German missal. The use of printers' waste or vellum fragments from manuscript documents to bind books was not unusual, this volume used an entire leaf to cover the volume. It is possible that this is how the book was sold by the bookseller.
The volume contains beautifully crafted woodcuts depicting scenes in Livy's text as well as large initials reminiscent of illuminated manuscripts.