Mercure de France, n°263 à n°264, tome LXXIII, année 1908

First edition.
Contemporary flexible grey cloth binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by R. de Gourmont "Les Premières idées de Chateaubriand", L. Dumur "Le Surhomme contre Nietzsche", C. Sauvage, M.-A. Leblond "Le Rêve du bonheur : Rousseau, Bernardin et le XIXè siècle", L. Séché "Etudes d'histoire romantique : la Muse de la patrie", Rachilde, G. Danville, G. Palante "La Sensibilité individualiste", P. Halary, A. Mortier, A. Gayet "Les Dernières découvertes archéologiques en Egypte", L. Tailhade "La Farce de la marmite".
Handsome interior condition.
'Mercure de France' was originally 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 revived the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and presented symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually achieving 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, Georges Duhamel?