Mercure de France Janvier-Février 1908. Dix Neuvième année. Tome 71

First edition.
Half-green cloth binding, smooth spine, corners very slightly bumped, light marginal tears on a few leaves not affecting the text on pages 617-626, contemporary binding.
Contributions by Péladan "La Philosophie de Léonard de Vinci d'après ses manuscrits", H. Bachelin "Jules Renard", "Lettres inédites d'Hortense Allart de Méritens à Sainte-Beuve", M. Réja "La Responsabilité criminelle", V.-E. Michelet "Poèmes", E. Pilon "Madame Greuze ou la "Cruche cassée" ", R. de Gourmont "Epilogues", P. Quillard "Les Poèmes", J. de Gourmont "Littérature", J. Sageret "Le Paradis d'Anatole France", P. Arbelet "Sur la tombe de Stendhal", A. Spire "Poèmes", L. Dumur "Nietzsche et la culture", A. Mockel "L'Île du repos", E. Raynaud "Le Voyage à Venise", G. Meredith "L'Histoire de Chloé"
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originated as a French review, 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 took up the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and featured symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually 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?