Mercure de France, n°305 à n°306, tome LXXXIV, année 1910

First edition.
Contemporary binding in soft mouse-gray paper boards, original wrappers preserved.
Contributions by R. de Chavagnes "Le Juif au théâtre", J. Romains, Ovian "Les Danses d'Isidora Duncan", F. Caussy "Lettres inédites de Voltaire à Panckoucke", H. H. Ewers "La Sauce tomates", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, C.-H. Hirsch, A. Fontainas, M. Coulon "L'Unité de Jean Moréas", E. Beaurepaire "Le Ruisseau de Ménilmontant et la Grange-Batelière", M. Dauguet, P. Berrichon "Rimbaud et Verlaine", L.-N. Goussiev "Deux entretiens de L.-N. Tolstoï sur la Révolution", M. Legrand "Monsieur Roches", P. Quillard, G. Danville.
Copy illustrated with a portrait of H. d'Arbois de Jubainville by A. Rouveyre.
Pleasant 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 resumed the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and presented 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 was born in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?