Finishing, comprises lettering, tooling, and polishing, &c.
Finishing press, a small press used for holding books when they are being tooled (see [Fig. 84]).
Finishing stove, used for heating finishing tools.
Folder, a flat piece of ivory or bone, like a paper knife, used in folding sheets and in various other operations.
Foredge (fore edge), the front edge of the leaves. Pronounced “forrege.”
Forwarding, comprises all the operations between sewing and finishing, excepting headbanding.
Gathering, collecting one sheet from each pile in a printer’s warehouse to make up a volume.
Glaire, white of eggs beaten up, and used in finishing and edge gilding.
Half binding, when the leather covers the back and only part of the sides, a book is said to be half bound.
Head band, a fillet of silk or thread, worked at the head and tail of the back.