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Hand Finished - Polishing, lettering, tooling and embellishing the spine, covers. insides of the covers. and sometimes the edges of a book. as well as inlaying, onlaying, varnishing, and otherwise decorating and/or protecting the finished bookbinding by an artisan not exclusivly by machine.
The craftspersonship of the binder or finisher (gilder. as they are traditionally called) determins how well a book is finished. Whether a books or paper is hand finished is very important and its significance in the craft of bookbinding dates to the earliest days of books, paper and printing.
Hand finishing can refer to paper or pages after the various operations in paper manufacture are performed, including supercalendering, plating, slitting, rewinding, sheeting, trimming, sorting, counting, and packaging. Ruling, punching, pasting, folding and embossing are also at times considered to be paper related hand finishing operations.
Also, when leather is included in a book, then the processes in leather manufacture following tannage, including: shaving or splitting, dyeing, fatliquoring, setting out, drying, staking, finishing or seasoning, glazing (or plating, embossing or debossing), and measuring when performed not exclusivly by a machine but by an artisan are considered part of hand finished work.
see also: finish
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