Mercure de France Mars-Avril 1906. Dix Septième année. Tome 60

First edition.
Half green cloth binding, smooth spine, corners slightly bumped, marginal tear with slight damage to text on page 353, contemporary binding.
Contributions by Conan Doyle "Une Femme de physiologiste", Dostoïevski "Monsieur Polzounkov", V. Ségalen "Le Double Rimbaud", F. Gautier "Documents sur Baudelaire", F. Jammes "L'Eglise habillée de feuilles", C. Vellay "La Correspondance de Saint-Just", R. de Gourmont "Epilogues", P. Quillard "Les Poèmes", C. Morice "Art moderne", A. Retté "Alfred de Musset à Fontainebleau", J. de Gourmont "Littérature", M. Achinard "La Centennale de l'art allemand", J. Troubat "Albert Glatigny et Sainte-Beuve souvenirs intimes", M. Théaux "Les Idées politiques de M. Clémenceau", E. Barthèlemy "Sur Néron", H. Bachelin "Pas-comme-les-autres", C. Morice "le XXIIè Salon des Indépendants"
Handsome internal condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French periodical, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which would evolve to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review took up 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 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, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?