Paul VERLAINE

First edition on ordinary paper.
Contributions by P. Verlaine with "Souvenir": La plume, il y a 20 ans, L. Tailhade, A. Ibels, A. Remacle...
Spine and boards marginally faded, handsome copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Contributions by L. Tailhade "Préface à un livre de tauromachie", P. Verlaine "La Plume, il y a 20 ans : Pour Roberte", E. Tyan "Pour le Liban, poème"...
Spine and boards slightly faded, handsome copy.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Other contributions by P. Verlaine "Poèmes", E.A. Poe with letters, P. Adam, the memoirs of General Rossignol, R. Coolus...
Issue illustrated with 2 woodcuts by C. Maurin.

First edition.
Full soft grey mouse-colored paper boards, spine stained, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by M. Coulon "Moréas dévoilé", O. Uzanne "L'Art graphique et figuratif de Monsieur Ingres", P. Berrichon "Rimbaud chez les Parnassiens : sa liaison avec Verlaine", R. Martineau "Flaubert à Chenonceaux", R. de Gourmont, E. Herpin "Les Tiroirs de Chateaubriand", R. Schwab "Maeterlinck, le sage des jours ordinaires", P. Quillard, Saint-Alban "Le Nu au théâtre", A. Paupe, F. Mauriac "Enfance", Péladan "Philosophie de la volupté", Rachilde, P. Louis "Le Double prolétariat antique", A. Spire, E. Pilon, L. Dumur "L'Ecole du dimanche".
Copy decorated with drawings by A. Rouveyre.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French periodical, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become a publishing house in the 20th century.
Under the influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review revived the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and featured symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually gaining recognition, this review published both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and witnessed the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house was born in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?

First edition, presented under cream plain double wrappers, one of the copies on Holland paper from a very small print run, the number unspecified, the only deluxe copies.
Contributions by Gustave Kahn, E. La Jeunesse, Chavarche Antéorte on the events in Armenia, T. Bernard...
Issue illustrated with 2 hospital sketches by Paul Verlaine, the portrait of Paul Verlaine by Félix Vallotton and a woodcut by Tsuyouki representing Hok'Sai.
Marginal worming affecting the covers of the double wrappers, otherwise a handsome copy.
Rare.