Mercure de France, n°139 à n°141, tome XXXIX, année 1901

First edition.
Contemporary flexible grey cloth binding, second cover slightly stained, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by P. Quillard "Francis Jammes et Charles Guérin", H. de Régnier, L. Charpentier, P. Lasserre, A. Delacour "Le Pape rouge", R. de Gourmont "Le Succès et l'idée de Beauté", A. Fontainas, V. Josz, E. Barthélémy "Thomas Carlyle et la Démocratie : le principe de différenciation", Rachilde, A.-Ferdinand Hérold, M.-A. Leblond "Leconte de Lisle avant la Révolution de 1848", G. Danville "L'Amour magicien".
Copy illustrated with drawings by A. Donnay.
Handsome interior condition.
'Mercure de France' was originally a French review, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become a publishing house in the 20th century.
Under the influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review revived the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and presented symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually achieving recognition, this review published both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and witnessed 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?