{"id":2666,"date":"2012-11-25T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:30:59","slug":"bookbinder-of-the-month-edgar-mansfield-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/bookbinder-of-the-month-edgar-mansfield-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookbinder of the Month: Edgar Mansfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Moby Dick<\/em> by Herman Melville is the classic novel possessing the iconic white sperm whale, whose image graces the cover of this binding by Edgar Mansfield. Following the design of Baudelaire’s\u00a0Les Fleurs du Mal<\/em> (1952) and\u00a0A Rage to Live<\/em> by John O’Hara (1952), Mansfield created this design for\u00a0Moby Dick<\/em> in 1953. Tooling in black, Mansfield creates movement and depth with variations in tone and line width. \u00a0The book is bound in a native dyed red morocco.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Les Fleurs du Mal<\/em> by Baudelaire (The Harvill Press. 1952), bound in yellow morocco inlaid in red and black, tooled in blind<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A Rage to Live<\/em> by John O’Hara (Random House. 1949), bound in orange-red morocco tooled in blind<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moby Dick by Herman Melville is the classic novel possessing the iconic white sperm whale, whose image graces the cover of this binding by Edgar Mansfield. Following the design of Baudelaire’s\u00a0Les Fleurs du Mal (1952) and\u00a0A Rage to Live by John O’Hara (1952), Mansfield created this design for\u00a0Moby Dick in 1953. 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