Mercure de France, n°293 à n°294, tome LXXXI, année 1909

First edition.
Contemporary binding in full flexible grey mouse-colored cardboard, spine doubly cracked at foot without loss, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by A. Rouveyre, A. de Bersaucourt "le Théâtre de Victor Hugo et la parodie", J. de Gaultier "Notes sur le cynisme", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, Péladan "Le Costume et les moeurs", E. Vuillermoz, Comminges.
Copy enhanced with a portrait of Paul Fort by A. Rouveyre.
Handsome interior condition.
'Mercure de France' was originally a French review, 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 review adopted 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 Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and witnessed the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysique.
The publishing house emerged in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?