Mercure de France, n°273 à n°274, tome LXXVI, année 1908

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey cardboard binding, one stain on spine, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by J. Bertaut "Barbey d'Aurevilly, critique littéraire", J. Norel "L'Europe contre la Turquie", H.-G. Wells "Un Rêve d'Armageddon", R. de Gourmont "André Rouveyre", P. Quillard, Rachilde, C.-H. Hirsch, C. Morice, F. Nitezsche "Ecce homo, comment on devient ce que l'on est" P. Louis "L'Antagonisme anglo-allemand", R. Martineau "Un ami de Barbey d'Aurevilly".
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originally was a French review, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which would evolve 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 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 published notably the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?