Mercure de France, n°279 à n°280, tome LXXVII, année 1909

First edition.
Full soft gray cardboard binding, front board stained, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by M.-D. Calvacoressi "Edgar Poe, ses biographes, ses éditeurs, ses critiques", F. Toussaint, J. de Gaultier "Pragmatisme", Rachilde, R. de Gourmont, J-R. Charbonnel "La Musique et la renaissance de l'inconscient", F. Jammes, T. de Visan "Maurice Barrès, professeur de lyrisme", A. Cloüart, J. Mesnil, G. Le Cardonnel "Les Soutiens de l'ordre".
Copy enhanced with portraits of Jules Renard and Jean Psichari by André Rouveyre.
Handsome internal condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originated as a French journal, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which would evolve to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review adopted the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and published 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 notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?