It is finished!
A Little Bit of Trust, by @creatorofuniverses and @neonthewrite!
This is the first book I ever typeset, back last July or August, when I first started learning how to bookbind. In fact, the entire idea of learning how to bookbind was initially so I could have this series on my shelf.
However, due to it being a very thick book (624 pages!), I put actually finishing it on hold for a bit while I got more confident in my skills.
AND NOW IT'S DONE!
The front cover art is by @ghostlycreativeactivity, and the back cover, endpapers, and internal illustrations are by @creatorofuniverses.
The spine is hand-painted. As I expected while doing the last one, it's much easier with a teensy brush.
Close-up on the front cover, where the art comes out from behind the cloth. There's a thin board under the cloth, so it's raised.
Because this book is my first typeset and has waited so long for me to finish it, I have learned a lot since I typeset it, and as such I'm re-doing the typeset before I make the author copies. I'm also going to make myself another copy. So this one ended up being sort of a practice book, which was rather freeing as I experimented with how I wanted to do the cover, and made a book with mull and tapes (support for thick books) for the first time.
I also decided to use the miscolored endpapers and covers for it, from when the printer ran out of ink while I was printing.