A fine clean copy of Apollo ~ Vol. CXLIV ~ No. 415, published in September 1996 and devoted to "Degas as a Collector", a collection of essays by Anne Dumas. Contents comprise the following scholarly essays : I. Introduction :- "The National Gallery's Purchases at the Degas Sale, 1918" ~ "Degas and the Collecting Milieu" : II. The Compulsive Collector :- "The Arrangement of the Collection" : "The"Musee Degas"" : III. Degas and Tradition :- "Ingres : Drawing and Design" : "Delacroix : Colour and Movement" : "Corot and Landscape" : IV. Degas and his Contemporaries :- "Degas and Manet" : "Degas and Cezanne" : "Degas and Gauguin" : V. The Prints : VI. Notes : VII. Selected Bibliography, and VIII. Chronology of Acquisitions, plus regular monthly features. Soft covers.