Mercure de France, n°253 à n°254, tome LXXI, année 1908

First edition.
Bound in grey mouse-colored soft cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by H. Bachelin "Jules Renard", F. Porché, L. Séché, M. Réja "La Responsabilité criminelle", V.-E. Michelet, A. Hippius "Notes sur la littérature russe de notre temps", E. Pilon "Madame Greuze ou la cruche cassée", R. de Gourmont, Péladan "Un Idéalisme expérimental : la philosophie de Léonard de Vinci d'après ses manuscrits", J. Sageret, P. Arbelet "Sur la tombe de Stendhal", E. Magne, A. Spire, P. Lebesgue "Le Portugal et l'Espagne dans l'œuvre de la Civilisation", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, G. Danville, C. Morice, C.-H. Hirsch.
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 a publishing house in the 20th century.
Under the influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review resumed 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, Colette, Apollinaire, and Georges Duhamel.