Mercure de France, n°265 à 266, tome LXXIV, année 1908

First edition.
Full grey mouse-colored soft cardboard binding, small stains on boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by J. Pérès "Le Mysticisme de la volonté chez H. de Balzac", P. Quillard "Charles Cros", G. de Reynold "Un Précurseur du Romantisme : Gessner et le sentiment de la nature", J. Gounouilhou "Les Sollicitations amoureuses", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, A. Marguillier, O. Maus "Divergences musicales", A. Feugère "Les Indiennes de Chateaubriand, d'après des fragments inédits des 'Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe' ", H. Dagan " La Doctrine des Néo-royalistes", E. Magne, S. Zeromski "Aryman se venge", C.-H. Hirsch.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' is originally a French magazine, 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 magazine 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 magazine 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?