Pierre Elliott Trudeau | La Vie en Rose; | A Biography Told in 80 Wood Engravings.

[Toronto]: George A. Walker, [2015]. Cased in full red leather, with gilt stamped device of a rose to the upper cover, gilt lettering and five raised bands to the spine, and marbled endpapers. Housed in a matching quarter red leather solander box, with gilt lettering to the spine, red cloth sides, velour lining, tan cloth covered boards, and wood engraved portrait of Trudeau [the elder, to be explicit] to the upper cover. Unpaginated [pp. 232]. A fine copy. The text was set in Bembo, with Bernhard used for the headings; printed on Rising Stonehenge 250 gm 100% rag archival paper. From an edition of 25 copies, of which this is letter I of 10 lettered copies withheld for private distribution. Signed and lettered by George Walker on the colophon page; signed also by Tom Smart, who contributed the Endnote, George Elliott Clarke, who contributed the Introduction, and notably, by Justin Trudeau, whose preface, Je T’aime, Papa , was adapted from his eulogy of his father. Item #211

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