Mercure de France, n°361 à n°363, tome XCVIII, année 1912

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey mouse-colored cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved.
Contributions by A. Fontainas "Hommage à Léon Dierx", A. Rouveyre, F. Mauriac "L'enfant chargé de chaînes", Rachilde, R. Dumesnil "Flaubert et le théâtre", G. Duhamel, A. Marguillier, R. Launay "Henri Heine et son 'Nationalisme'", G. Apollinaire.
Handsome interior condition.
'Mercure de France' originally was a French periodical, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which would evolve 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 featured symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Progressively gaining recognition, this review would publish both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and 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?