{"id":2310,"date":"2012-11-04T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:31:20","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-edgar-mansfield-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/04\/bookbinder-of-the-month-edgar-mansfield-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Edgar Mansfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Throughout Edgar Mansfield’s career as a bookbinder, he bound several copies of Victor Gollancz’s Through the Woods.\u00a0<\/em>Twelve of them are represented in\u00a0The Work of Edgar Mansfield<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0The binding in the first image was bound in 1958; covered in a native tanned natural morocco with brown markings (both natural and added by Mansfield).\u00a0<\/em>The grain creases were induced during covering. All tooling is blind, with inlays of rust-red, greens and chrome yellow.<\/p>\n

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left side: Bound in 1959 in a native dyed red morocco. The inlaid design spans over four levels built into the cover; inlay leather of chrome yellow, warm black, stone, neutralised green, natural and lemon yellow. All tooling in blind.<\/p>\n

right side: Bound in 1959 in a native tanned natural morocco with natural markings. The grain was creased during covering. All tooling in blind; the solid areas are built up with a short pallet to produce tonal and textural variations.<\/p>\n

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left side: Bound in 1960 in a native tanned natural morocco. Inlaid design spans over three levels built into the cover; inlay leather of white, yellows, orange, browns and greens. Tooling in green and blind.<\/p>\n

right side: Bound in 1960 in a native tanned natural morocco with creases added to the grain while covering. Brown staining was added to the areas of the leather built up. Recessed inlays in yellow, red, white, black, grey and green. Tooling in light and dark blind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout Edgar Mansfield’s career as a bookbinder, he bound several copies of Victor Gollancz’s Through the Woods.\u00a0Twelve of them are represented in\u00a0The Work of Edgar Mansfield.\u00a0The binding in the first image was bound in 1958; covered in a native tanned natural morocco with brown markings (both natural and added by Mansfield).\u00a0The grain creases were induced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,68,13],"tags":[1867,378,75,384,385],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-bookbinding","tag-edgar-mansfield","tag-leather","tag-through-the-woods","tag-victor-gollancz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-Bg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2562,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/18\/bookbinder-of-the-month-edgar-mansfield-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":2310,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Edgar Mansfield","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"November 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This is an earlier binding from Edgar Mansfield, before he really developed his expressionist style.\u00a0Room and Book by Paul Nash was published by Soncino Press in 1932 and was bound by Mansfield in 1941. 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