Mercure de France, n°291 à n°292, tome LXXX, année 1909

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey mouse-colored cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved.
Contributions by C. Samaran "Les Indiscrétions de Garganello ou la vie galante en Avignon au XVIè siècle", A. Rouveyre "Alfred Valette", G. Batault "Nietzsche prophète", H. Ibsen "Le 'Brand' épique d'Ibsen", P. Hirsch, M. Reynard "Le Rendez-vous", R. de Gourmont, P. Quillard, E. Carteron, J. de Gourmont "Les Muses", C. Enlart "Le Sabotage au Moyen-Âge".
Interior in handsome condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French periodical, founded in the seventeenth century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become, in the twentieth century, a publishing house.
Under the impetus of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review revived the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and featured symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually gaining recognition, this review published both the greatest Parnassian poets (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, Georges Duhamel?