Mercure de France, n°269 à n°270, tome LXXV, année 1908

First edition.
Bound in flexible grey mouse-colored paper boards, stains on first cover, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by E. Barthélémy "Saint-Simon", L. Le Cardonnel, Péladan "De l'inutilité de la Réforme protestante", P. Hortala, A. de Bersaucourt "Les Pamphlets contre Victor Hugo", R. Kipling "Deux Contes", L. Séché "Les Débuts du Romantisme au Théâtre français : le Baron Taylor et le 'Léonidas' de Michel Pichat en 1825", A. Fontainas, J. de Gaultier "Une Philosophie est-elle encore possible ?", A. Droin, L. Van den Plas "Le Vrai Féminisme provoque-t-il la guerre des sexes ?", J. Giraudoux "Sainte-Estelle", R. de Gourmont, P. Quillard, Rachilde.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French review, 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 review took up 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 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, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?