He was born in Uppsala and learned the trade of bookbinding in his native country, including stamping book covers in gold leaf.
Mandelgreen probably found a successor to his knowledge in the Flushing pupil and later publisher and bookbinder Jan Dane.
Mandelgreen also published sheet music, such as the Symphony for string orchestra opus 1 by Christian Ernst Graf, as well as his Sei Sinfonie a violino primo, secondo, viola e basso.
Furthermore, the publisher announced in the Middelburgsche Courant that Graf's "Trios, being VI sonatas on violons, vol.
[4] In 1758, Mandelgreen, together with Adam Laurens Callenfels and Louis Taillefert Davidsz., started publishing the Middelburgsche Courant, the first copy of which appeared on 26 April of that year, making it the third oldest (still continuing) newspaper of the Netherlands.