Mercure de France Mai-Juin 1906. Dix Septième année. Tome 61

First edition.
Half-green cloth binding, smooth spine, corners very slightly bumped, minimal marginal tears on 4 leaves not affecting the text on pages 57-64, contemporary binding.
Contributions by Saint-Alban "La Psychologie de l'avancement militaire", M. Pellisson "L'Arrestation et la mort de Chamfort", L. Delattre "Le Jeu des petites gens", R; de Gourmont "Epilogues", J. de Gourmont "Littérature", "Dix-neuf lettres inédites de Stendhal", L. Séché "Les Origines d'Alfred de Musset", A. von Gennep "Les Idées des Australiens sur la conception et la réincarnation", L. Weber "Histoire", C. Bernard "La Maison de Rubens", C. Morice "Le Salon de la Société nationale", C. E. Delay "L'Ambition suprême", P. Quillard "Les Poèmes", P.-G. La Chesnais "Henrik Ibsen", E. Masson "Carlyle et Froude"
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?