Mercure de France, n°385 à n°388, tome CIV, année 1913

First edition.
Full soft grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by A. Rouveyre, G. Soulages "L'idylle vénitienne", Rachilde, R. de Gourmont, C.-H. Hirsch, G. Kahn "Art", G. Apollinaire "La Vie anecdotique".
Copy adorned with a drawing by A. Rouveyre, "le colimaçon".
Handsome 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 influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review adopted 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?