Mercure de France, n°259 à n°260, tome LXXII, année 1908

First edition.
Contemporary binding in soft grey mouse-colored paper boards, original wrappers preserved.
Contributions by L. Séché "Le Cénacle de la muse française", J. Morland "Le Maître de Léonard de Vinci : Andrea Verrocchio", C.-R. Marx "Poèmes", J. de Gourmont "La Toison d'or", Rachilde, J. de Gaultier "Le Bovarysme de l'histoire", Saint-Pol-Roux "Pour dire aux funérailles des poètes", E. Gaubert "Henry Bataille", A. Maybon "Le Programme des démocrates socialistes chinois", Marin "Lettres à Voltaire".
Interior in good condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French periodical, 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 revived the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and featured 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, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?