Mercure de France, n°301 à n°302, tome LXXXIII, année 1910

First edition.
Full soft gray cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by F. Jammes, S. Lagerlöf "Quelques souvenirs, deux prophéties", C. Enlart, P. de Lacretelle "Les Origines paternelles de Lamartine", E. Sicard "Les Marchands", R. de Gourmont, S. Merrill, E. Magne "Le Machinisme dans la littérature contemporaine", G. Maire "La Personnalité de Baudelaire et la critique biologique des 'Fleurs du mal", A. Praviel, G. Eekhoud, A. Fontainas, A. Paupe, Rachilde.
Work enhanced with portraits of Louis Dumur and Madame Pierre Curie by André Rouveyre.
Handsome internal condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originated as a French journal, 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 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.) and 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, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?