Mercure de France, n°261 à n°262, tome LXXIII, année 1908

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey mouse-colored cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved.
Contributions by E. Magne "Le Jeu de massacre", L. Séché "Études d'histoire romantique : le cénacle de la muse française", G. Sabiron, R. Martineau "Généalogie de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam", J. de Gourmont "La Toison d'or", A. Fontainas "Dante-Gabriel Rossetti, le poète", L. Tailhade, A. van Gennep "De quelques cas du Bovarysme collectif", R. Kipling "Deux contes", R. de Gourmont, P. Quillard, Rachilde, M. Boissard.
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, 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 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?