Mercure de France, n°275 à n°276, tome LXXVI, année 1908

First edition.
Full soft grey mouse-colored paper boards, small stains on the back cover, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by A. Fontainas "L'Art et l'Etat", A. Rouveyre "Théodule Ribot" and "Jean Moréas", F. Nietzsche "Ecce Homo", L. Le Cardonnel, G. Batault "Appollon et Dionysos : leur vrai sens chez Nietzsche", F. Caussy "Les Débuts politiques de Lamartine", S. Merrill, L. Séché "Chateaubriand et la tombe de Pauline de Beaumont", Rachilde, R. de Gourmont, G. Danville.
Copy illustrated with drawings by A. Rouveyre.
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 a publishing house in the 20th century.
Under the impetus of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review revived 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?