Les Escaliers de Québec. Luc Bureau. Illustrations by Ghislaine Bureau.

(Montreal, Quebec: Éditions Les Giboulées, 2007.)
17.1cm x 27.2cm x 2cm
Edition in French; number 21 of an edition of 25; signed by the author and illustrator.

Leporello structure bound in black goat case. Suede pastedowns. Cover design blind and gold tooled. Hand titled in gold on spine. Custom box with magnetic closures that emphasize the gold tooled part of the cover design (see next photo). Bound in 2012.

The cover design is derived from various parts of each set of stairs illustrated in the book. The gold tooled portions are from the illustration of ‘escalier Casse-cou’, a series the binder found delightful.