Mercure de France, n°142 à n°144, tome XL, année 1901

First edition.
Contemporary full soft grey mouse-colored cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by R. de Gourmont "La Jeune fille d'aujourd'hui", M.-A. Leblond "Leconte de Lisle sous la Seconde République et sous l'Empire" & "1870-71, la fin de sa vie", G. Danville "L'Amour magicien", P. Quillard, Rachilde, L. Bloy "Exégèse des lieux communs", E. Dujardin, A. Beaunier "Francis Viélé-Griffin", H. de Régnier "L'amour et le plaisir, histoire galante", S. Merrill, L. Dumur "Un coco de génie".
Copy illustrated with unpublished drawings by J. Aarts and Auguste Donnay.
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 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 review published both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and witnessed the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house arose in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?