Mercure de France, n°304, tome LXXXIII, 16 Février 1910

First edition.
Contributions by Edmond Barthélémy, Henri Massis, Sébastien-Charles Leconte, André Dupont, André Rouveyre, Henri Malo, Georges Rouault, Béreins, Rémy de Gourmont, Jean de Gourmont, Henri Mazel...
A small tear at foot of spine repaired, foxing and small marginal tears to boards, handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originated as 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 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 review published both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and witnessed the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house followed in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?