Mercure de France, n°229 à n°232, tome LXV, année 1907

First edition.
Full soft grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by W. de Sacher Masoch "Confession de ma vie", A. Verwey, O. Maus, G. Grappe "Quelques notes sur le symbolisme", R. de Gourmont "Un Coeur virginal", H.-D. Davray "Le Mouvement littéraire anglo-canadien", G. Maire "Un essai de classification des 'Fleurs du Mal', G. Boissy, C. Morice "Paul Cézanne", P. Vierge "Les Lectures de Bonaparte en Epypte", J. de Gourmont, A.-Ferdinand Hérold.
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 took up 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 was born in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?