Mercure de France, n°181 à n°184, tome LIII, année 1905

First edition.
Contemporary binding in gray mouse-colored flexible paper boards, second cover stained, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by A. Vallette, A. Retté "Sainte-Beuve", H. de Régnier, P. Verlaine - E. de Goncourt - Baudelaire "Lettres inédites à Félicien Rops", S. Merrill, R. de Gourmont "Les Enquêtes littéraires", P. Souchon "Frédéric Mistral", L. Evrard "Le Soupçon", F. Gautier "Documents sur Baudelaire", C. Chabrier-Rider "L'Entourage féminin de Schopenhauer", J. Marnold "Hector Berlioz, musicien", Tei-San "L'évolution de la peinture japonaise", C. Morice "Les Textes de Rabelais et la critique contemporaine".
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French periodical, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review revived 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 the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) as well as 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, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?