Mercure de France, n°118 à n°120, tome XXXII, année 1899

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey card binding, covers lightly stained, original wrappers preserved.
Contributions by R. de Gourmont "Le Songe d'une femme", A. Lebey, P. Quillard, Rachilde "La Peste de Florence", V. Josz "Les Murs de Péronne", H.-G. Wells "L'Oeuf de cristal", J. de Gaultier "De Nietzsche à Kant, la régression philosophique", J. Casanova "L'Araignée d'or", H. Rebell "La Bataille pour un mort", P. Louÿs, M. Collière, E. Verhaeren, F. Jammes, A. Retté "La Fée Mirabelle".
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French magazine, founded in the seventeenth century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become, in the twentieth century, a publishing house.
Under the impetus of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary magazine resumed 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 magazine 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?