Developing-Focal manual of technique

[Leidolf]

Does anyone know what was the latest edition and the last published updated reprint of this fine book?
I'm researching a project and would like to find the latest edition published.

I have the Eighteenth Revised Edition, updated reprint, reprinted and published in 1980, and wondered if there was later editions, and where to find them.

The frontespiece has it roughly like this

First Edition : May, 1940
Second Edition : May, 1942
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Eighteenth Edition Revised : July, 1976
Updated reprint : July, 1978
Reprinted : Jan, 1980

 

[Mick Fagan]

I have the same book, I don't believe there has been a later edition, or a later revision.

Essentially it was a father and son book, with the old man emigrating to England in 1939, with his son eventually becoming someone in the same arena as his father.

I found this an interesting review of the book. It is also where I picked up the bit about the father and son.

http://printerattic.com/2016/05/boo...he-technique-of-the-negative-by-c-i-jacobson/

Mick.

Ps:- it is an excellent book, bought mine new in 1985 from a technical bookshop in Melbourne, called, oddly enough, Technical Bookshop, which sadly is not around these days.

 

[Ian Grant]

I have the same 1980 reprint of the 18th Edition as well as a 1940 1st Edition. When I was at school and became interested in photography Developing and the companion book Enlarging were in the school library and all I really needed to get started.

It is and excellent book and one I frequently recommend buying to people beginning darkroom work.

Ian