Mercure de France, n°283 à n°284, tome LXXVIII, année 1909

First edition.
Gray mouse soft cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by J. Moréas "En rêvant sur un album de dessins", H. Monin "Stendhal éducateur", P. Quillard "Les Serbes et l'empire Austro-Hongois", A. Rouveyre "Octave Uzanne" and "Maurice Barrès", Touny-Lérys, Voltaire "Lettres à Lekain, publiées par F. Caussy", M. Beaubourg, R. de Gourmont, A. Fontainas "L'Art social", M.-A. Leblond "L'Expansion française en Europe et les relations franco-italiennes", A. Praviel, Rachilde.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French periodical, 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 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 see 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?