Mercure de France, n°145 à n°147, tome XLI, année 1902

First edition.
Full soft grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by A. Fontainas "Saint-Pol-Roux", P. Fort "Ballades françaises : Paris sentimental", F. Baldensperger "Le Faust de Goethe et le romantisme français", L. Dumur "Un coco de génie", A. Delacour "La Religion de Shakespeare", F. Nietzsche "Pour une critique de la modernité", G. Danville, J. Marnold "Siegfried", M.-A. Leblond "Henri de Régnier et la critique décorative", Rachilde "Le Tout-au-ciel", L. Bloy, F. de Miomandre "Paul Claudel", R. de Gourmont "Sur l'Art Nouveau".
Copy illustrated with drawings by J. Aarts and A. Donnay.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originated as 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 impulse of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review revived the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and featured 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 was born in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?