Ex XIIII. T. Liuii decadibus. Prima, tertia, quarta, in qua præter fragmenta III, & X libri, quæ in Germania nuper reperta, hic etiam continentur, multa adulterina expunximus, multa uera recipimus, quæ in alijs non habentur. Epitome singulorum librorum XIII decadum. Historia omnium XIIII decadum in compendium redacta ab L. Floro. Polybij lib. V de rebus Romanis Latinitate donati à Nicolao Perotto. Index copiosissimus rerum omnium memorabilium
A 1518 Venetian printing of Livy's Roman history in Latin, issued by the Aldine press for scholars and students of the classics. The single picture is a printer's device: a heraldic griffin perched on a rounded plinth beneath a curled ribbon bearing the word GAUDEO in engraved capitals. A designer could take from it the compact, emblematic logic of a printer's mark, with a central creature framed by a banner and base.
