Mercure de France, n°281 à n°282, tome LXXVIII, année 1909

First edition.
Contemporary binding in flexible grey mouse-colored paper boards, small pale stains on front cover, original wrappers preserved.
Contributions by A.-Ferdinand Herold "Catulle Mendès", A. Rouveyre, S. Merrill, F. Baldensperger, L. Tailhade "le Théâtre japonais moderne", L. Bazalgette "l'Enfance et la mort d'Abraham Lincoln", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, C.-H. Hirsch, E. Rey "Métaphysique de l'amour", J. Ajalbert "Notes sur l'Indo-Chine : au Cambodge", M. de Noisay "le Passé, le présent et l'avenir de l'Académie française", M. Beaubourg "Colloque des squares : les aventures du petit Prince de Roussquiqui et de sa Roussquiquine".
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French review, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which would evolve to become a publishing house in the 20th century.
Under the impetus 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 published both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and witnessed the birth of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house emerged in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?