Mercure de France, n°235 à n°236, tome LXVI, année 1907

First edition.
Full flexible grey paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by F. Jammes "Charles Guérin", S. Merrill, E. Barthélémy "Littérature et démocratie : Hugo et l'esthétique de Guernesey", Péladan "Les Trois traités doctrinaux de Dante", A. Van Gennep "Les Nouveaux musées de Berlin et le Trocadéro", W. de Sacher-Masoch "Confession de ma vie", R. de Gourmont, P. Quillard, Rachilde, F. Charpin "La Question religieuse, enquête internationale", J. Bainville "Rousseau et le Romantisme français", C. Morice.
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, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the impetus of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review adopted 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 the wake of this. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?