Mercure de France, n°297 à n°298, tome LXXXII, année 1909

First edition.
Full soft gray mouse-colored boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by D. Plan "Le Roman de la fille de Madame Roland", A. Rouveyre "Visages : Gabriel Séailles", J. de Gourmont "Les Muses", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, J. Barbey d'Aurevilly "Quelques lettres à François Coppée et Annette Coppée", M.-A. Leblond "Le Bonheur individuel et la repopulation", E. Defrance "L'Esprit mystique de la Révolution d'Angleterre", P. Quillard, Rachilde, A. Fontainas.
Copy illustrated with drawings by A. Rouveyre.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originally was 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 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 would publish both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) as well as witness 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?