Fra Luca de Pacioli

Here’s a little Bruce Rogers number with an essay by Stanley Morison (who initialed it) and a bibliography by Philip Hofer. In between is the work of Luca de Pacioli, who you know as the first person to publish a work on the double-entry system of bookkeeping, a precursor to QuickBooks. He also prepared this treatise on geometry and beauty and their application to roman letters. It predates similar explorations by Albrecht Dürer and Geoffrey Tory and later explorations by David Lance Goines. The title page is a total stunner, or “sheer inspired glory” (so sayeth Joe Blumenthal). From the collection of Inge Druckrey.

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