Mercure de France, n°289 à n°290, tome LXXX, année 1909

First edition.
Gray mouse-colored flexible paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by J. Marsan "Gérard de Nerval, lettres inédites", J.-P. Lafitte "Les Danses d'Isidora Duncan", G. Grappe "Constantin Guys", A. Rouveyre "Bergson" and "Auguste Rodin", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, J. de Gourmont "Les Muses, essai de physiologie poétique", H. Ibsen "Le 'Brand' épique d'Ibsen publié par La Chesnais", M. du Plessys, A. de Rochas, A. David "Les Colonies sionistes en Palestine", C. Marbo.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originally was a French magazine, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the impetus of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary magazine 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 magazine published both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and saw 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?