Mercure de France, n°255 à n°256, tome LXXI, année 1908

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey cardboard binding, front cover stained, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by L. Dumur "Nietzsche et la Culture", A. Bennett "Les Auteurs anglais, leurs débouchés, leurs bénéfices", C.-M. Savarit "Les Lois de l'allitération et de l'assonance", Péladan "Un Idéalisme expérimental : la philosophie de Léonard de Vinci d'après ses manuscrits", A. Mockel "L'Ile du repos, conte pour les enfants d'hier", E. Raynaud, C. Méré "André Chénier journaliste", M. Pézard "Salammbô et l'archéologie punique", G. Meredith "L'Histoire de Chloé", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, P. Quillard, P. Lebesgue.
Interior in handsome condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originally was 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 impulse 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?