{"id":2426,"date":"2012-11-11T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:31:12","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-edgar-mansfield-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/bookbinder-of-the-month-edgar-mansfield-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Edgar Mansfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I wish this image were in color, it’s a really striking design; the marks are almost sketch-like appearing at random to build a dimensional landscape.\u00a0Thirstland Treks<\/em> by Carel Birkby was printed by Faber and Faber in 1936 and this copy was bound by Edgar Mansfield in 1948. Covered in a native dyed yellow-brown morocco skin with slight creasing in the grain. The tooling is a combination of light and dark blind with a small amount of gold on the cover and spine.<\/p>\n

This is the first experiment with using the grain as an active and expressive element in the design.<\/p>\n

Reference: Modern Design in Bookbinding: The Work of Edgar Mansfield<\/a><\/em>, pg. 27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wish this image were in color, it’s a really striking design; the marks are almost sketch-like appearing at random to build a dimensional landscape.\u00a0Thirstland Treks by Carel Birkby was printed by Faber and Faber in 1936 and this copy was bound by Edgar Mansfield in 1948. Covered in a native dyed yellow-brown morocco skin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[12,68,13],"tags":[1867,398,378,75,397,251],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-binder-of-the-month","category-bookbinding","category-feature-book-of-the-week","tag-bookbinding","tag-carel-birkby","tag-edgar-mansfield","tag-leather","tag-thirstland-treks","tag-tooling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-D8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2310,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/04\/bookbinder-of-the-month-edgar-mansfield-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2426,"position":0},"title":"Bookbinder of the Month: Edgar Mansfield","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"November 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "binder of the month"","block_context":{"text":"binder of the month","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/binder-of-the-month\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/throughthewoods1958_mansfield-881x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2562,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/18\/bookbinder-of-the-month-edgar-mansfield-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":2426,"position":1},"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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