The Notebooks of Edgar Degas, 2 vols, Clarendon Press, 1976, Very Good hardcover w/DJs

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Reff, Theodore. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. 
English, Very Good, HC, Folio, 13 1/4" x 9 3/4", 167 pp; Unpaginated. 
ISBN: 0198173334

Hardcover in navy blue cloth. Both volumes have some wear, minor sunning, and light spots of soiling. Very Good orange pictorial dust jackets, bottom portion of front interior flap cut-out, some wear, few closed tears taped to Volume Two, minor sunning, now in Mylar. Volume One: 167 pp. Includes pages of black-and-white reproductions of Degas' sketches and studies. Volume Two: Unpaginated. Includes hundreds of black-and-white reproductions of Degas' sketchbooks, and a few in color. Fully titled The Notebooks of Edgar Degas: A Catalogue of the Thirty-eight Notebooks in the Bibliotheque Nationale and Other Collections. From inside the dust jacket: "[The notebooks provide] a virtually continuous record of Degas's activities, projects, interests, ideas, and contacts from the very beginning of his career in 1853 to the point when he stopped using notebooks about 1886...More than twelve hundred of the pages are reproduced, so that virtually every one of artistic importance or interest is included; four of the watercolours are reproduced in color."