Mercure de France, n°445 à n°448, tome CXIX, année 1917

First edition.
Full soft grey mouse-colored paper boards binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by M. Maeterlinck "Adieu à l'ami", H. de Régnier, F. Viélé-Griffin "Verhaeren", A. Fontainas "Sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Verhaeren", Dostoïevski "Niétotchka Nesvanova III-IV", Rachilde, E. Laloy "Guillaume II et l'Alliance anglo-japonaise", L. Boisse "Le Paysage et la nature dans l"oeuvre de Gustave Moreau", J.-W. Bienstock "Raspoutine", H. Clouzot, G. Apollinaire "Contribution à l'étude des superstitions et du folklore du Front".
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originally began as 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 revived 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 emerged in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?