Jésus-la-Caille. In Mercure de France, n°398 & n°399

Pre-original edition.
Contemporary binding in soft grey mouse-colored paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Other contributions by H. Dérieux "La Poésie de Mme de Noailles", A. Droin, L. Wilkinson "Sur des lettres inédites d'Oscar Wilde", F. Caussy "M. de Voltaire, gentilhomme ordinaire", P. Vergely "Mon enfant, ma soeur", G. Duhamel, Rachilde, R. Huard "Claude Bernard, auteur dramatique", G.-C. Cros, F. Nietzsche "Réflexions sur Richard Wagner", F. Viélé-Griffin "Emile Verhaeren", E. Raynaud "Le Rêve allemand", P. Berrichon "Rimbaud et Ménélick".
Copy enhanced with drawings by A. Rouveyre.
Handsome internal condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originally was a French magazine, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the impetus of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary magazine resumed the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and offered symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually gaining recognition, this magazine would publish both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) as well as witness the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house was born in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?