Mercure de France, n°213 à n°216, tome LXI, année 1906

First edition.
Full soft grey mouse-colored cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by J. Boulenger, Saint-Alban "La Psychologie de l'avancée militaire", E. Tassy, M. Pellisson "L'Arrestation et la mort de Chamfort", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, Dix-neuf lettres inédites de Stendhal, L. Séché "Les Origines d'Alfred de Musset", A. Van Gennep "Les Idées des Australiens sur la conception et la réincarnation", J. Anglade "La Conception de l'amour chez les Troubadours", C. Bernard "La Maison de Rubens", P.-G. La Chesnais "Henrik Ibsen", E. Masson "Carlyle et Foudre", E. Magne "Corneille'.
A tear to the half-title page, otherwise handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French review, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which would evolve to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review took up 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 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?