Mercure de France, n°241 à n°242, tome LXVIII, année 1907

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by E. Pilon "Francis Jammes", A. Mockel, R. de Gourmont, C. Siger, F. Charpin "La Question religieuse, enquête internationale", T. de Visan "L'Idéal symboliste, essai sur la mentalité lyrique contemporaine", E. Magne "Esthétique des villes", J. Romains, Beaumarchais "Lettres de l'exil", C. Merki " La Vicomtesse de Thouars", Rachilde, P. Quillard, A.-Ferdinand Hérold.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originally was 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 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 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 published notably the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?