Mercure de France Mars-Avril 1908. Dix Neuvième année. Tome 72

First edition.
Half green cloth binding, smooth spine, corners bumped, contemporary binding.
Contributions by A. Gide "Quelques mots sur Emmanuel Signoret", A. de Bersaucourt "Balzac et sa "Revue parisienne"", R. de Gourmont "Epilogues", J. de Gourmont "La Toison d'or", "Littérature", G. Meredith "Histoire de Chloé", L. Séché "Le Cénacle de la musique française", J. Morland "Andrea Verrochio", C. Roger-Marx, "Poèmes", Marin "Lettres à Voltaire"...
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally 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 resumed 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?