Edgar Mansfield

[3] Mansfield matriculated from Napier Boys' High School in 1923 and studied art in Dunedin at the King Edward Technical College with William Allen and Robert Nettleton Field.

[7]: 65  The book never reached publication but a slightly edited version of Mansfield's text, with Brake's photographs, was printed in the journal Art New Zealand in 2007.

[7]: 66 Mansfield served as the first president of the Guild of Contemporary Bookbinders, between 1955 and 1968, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1980.

[1][8] In the 1979 Queen's Birthday Honours, Mansfield was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services as a bookbinder and sculptor.

[9] The Mansfield Medal, awarded in the annual British Designer Bookbinders Society competition, is named in his honour.