Mercure de France, n°130 à n°132, tome XXXVI, année 1900

First edition.
Full soft mouse-grey cardboard binding, covers lightly stained, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by L. Denise "Albert Samain", F. Jammes, M. Gorky "Les Camarades", H. Albert "Frédéric Nietzsche", H.-G. Wells "Récits de l'âge de pierre I. -V." and "L'Ile du Docteur Moreau I-VI", A. Fontainas, V. Josz "Le Prix de Rome de Fragonard", R. de Gourmont "La Gloire et l'idée de l'immortalité", F. Viélé-Griffin, P. Léautaud "Essai de sentimentalisme", J. Moréas, Dr Cabanès "Une Tentative de conversion d'Alfred de Vigny".
Copy illustrated with unpublished vignettes by Auguste Donnay.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originally began as a French journal, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the impetus of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary journal revived the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and published symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually achieving recognition, this journal published both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) as well as witnessing the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house was born in this wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?