Darkroom Printing of Photographs. Lootens on Photographic Enlarging and Print Quality by J. Ghislain Lootens, F.P.S.A, F.R.P.S.

Baltimore: The Camera, 1944. No later printings indicated, presumed first edition. Cloth, very good, no dust jacket.  Illustrated throughout with author’s photographs.  258 pages.  Considered one of the classic texts on this subject, how to print exceptional monochrome photographs in the darkroom. Includes the basics like the enlarger, printing papers, chemical developers, fixing, etc., and also the use of test strips, dodging and burning, flashing for tone control, bleaching and intensification, combination printing, photomontage, retouching with New Coccine, blue and brown toning, and other specialized topics. The last chapter is a chemical formulary.