Birthday Project Result

I took my book out of the press this morning. It’s not perfect, but it’s not at all bad for my first attempt.

The cover looks good.

This is my first mistake. I glued the cover paper too much to the text block. I think I maybe did 1/4″ of glue. It should have been much less.

Here you can see a bit better that I glued too high on the cover.

And I made the same mistake on the back cover.

The back looks good. But the cover overhangs the pages of the book too much. I think instead of adding and extra inch of leather for the cover, I should have just added and extra 1/2″ to fold over.

But, by and large, I’m happy with the result. And now, I’m going to start using it as my own cookbook.