Mercure de France, n°333 à n°336, tome XCI, année 1911

First edition.
Bound in flexible grey mouse-colored paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by E. Henriot "Lettres inédites de M. Ingres", L. Pergaud "La Revanche du corbeau", A. Magnin "Charles Nodier, naturaliste", L. Dumur "L'école du dimanche", R. Lauret "L'Ame romantique de Théophile Gautier", R. de Gourmont, C. Morice "L'art contemporain et Monsieur Ingres", A. Rouveyres "Paul Claudel", G. Kahn "La Philosophie de la nature dans l'art de l'Extrême-Orient", O. Uzanne "Les Marques de possession du livre : ex-libris français", A. Vermeylen "Le Juif errant", Rachilde, G. Apollinaire.
Copy illustrated with drawings by G. Wendt.
Good interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originally was 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 resumed the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and published Symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Progressively gaining recognition, this review published both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and saw the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysique.
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?