Mercure de France, n°245 à n°246, tome LXIX, année 1907

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by J. Troubat, F. Baldensperger "Goethe et Hugo, juges et parties", C. Sauvage, L. Bauzin "Olivier de la Fayetteé, R. Kipling "Dray wara yow dee", R. de Gourmont, E. Barthélémy "L'œuvre critique de Thomas Carlyle", J. Sageret "Le Paradis laïque de Zola", J. Bois, R. Martineau "Autour de Tristan Corbière, M. Hewlett "Ippolita sur les collines", P. Quillard, Rachilde, C.-H. Hirsch.
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 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?