Mercure de France, n°133 à n°135, tome XXXVII, année 1901

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey cardboard binding, front cover lightly stained, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by A. Beaunier "Stuart Merrill" and "Les Parnassiens et les symbolistes", A.-Ferdinand Hérold, R. Kipling "La Marque de la bête", A. de Vigny "Lettres inédites", H.-G. Wells "L'Ile du Docteur Moreau VII. XIV, fin", P. Quillard "Jean Moréas", V. Josz "Fragonard, de la Pompadour à la du Barry", R. de Gourmont, E. Barthélémy "Thomas Carlyle et la démocratie", E. Verhaeren, P. Claudel "La Ville", Rachilde.
Copy illustrated with drawings by J.-J. Aarts and Laurent Malclès.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French review, 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 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, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?