L'Ermitage - Revue artistique et littéraire. Année complète 1899

First edition.
Publisher's Bradel binding in half dark green cloth, smooth spine, black morocco title label, small gilt ornament and double gilt fillet at foot.
Twelve issues from January to December 1899. Original wrappers preserved.
Each issue is illustrated with a wood engraving.
Literary contributions by Paul Fort, Henri Ghéon, André Gide, Francis Jammes, René Boylesve, etc.
Founded in 1890 by Henri Mazel, l'Ermitage was a monthly review belonging to the first wave of symbolist little magazines. In the 1895 years, the review entered decline, and its new director, Edouard Ducoté, called upon André Gide. The editorial team was then reduced to twelve regular collaborators, friends of Gide. After multiple difficulties and attempts to reorganize the editorial team (Remy de Gourmont would make a stint there and also contribute financially in 1905), l'Ermitage breathed its last in 1906.
L'Ermitage managed to distinguish itself from other important reviews of the period such as the Mercure de France or the Revue blanche because it claimed to be eclectic and apolitical; on its cover, one could read that it was "the only Review that concerns itself neither with politics nor sociology [but] that deals exclusively with literature and art." Its small illustrations were in Art Nouveau style, and, faithful to its symbolist spirit, its collaborators were more interested in poetry than in novels.
Tiphaine Samoyault, French literary critic, considers that l'Ermitage expresses a transition straddling fin-de-siècle aestheticism and the avant-garde poetry of the 1910s.