Mercure de France, n°277 à n°278, tome LXXVII, année 1909

First edition.
Bound in grey mouse-colored soft cardboard binding, with a significant tear to the spine, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by H. Schoen, H. Clouard "Maurice de Guérin et le sentiment de la nature", F. Nitezsche "Ecce Homo, comment on devient ce que l'on est", S. Rzewuski "Rudolph Eucken, Prix Nobel de littérature", G. Le Cardonnel "Les Soutiens de l'ordre", P. Louis "Crise d'Orient", J. H. Ingram "Edgar Poe et ses amis", E. Henriot "La Flamme et les cendres", A. Van Gennep "Le Masque de fer, une solution nouvelle", H. Potez "Chanfort et Alfred de Vigny", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, C.-H. Hirsch, C. Morice.
Copy illustrated with portraits of Sarah Bernhardt and Henri de Régnier 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 influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review resumed 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, Colette, Apollinaire, and Georges Duhamel.