Mercure de France, n°307 à n°308, tome LXXXIV, année 1910

First edition.
Full soft mouse-grey cardboard binding, front cover lightly stained, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by P.-G. La Chesnais, A. de Bengoechea, M. Coulon "L'Unité de Jean Moréas", J. de Linières, E. Morel "La Production de l'Imprimerie française en 1909", R. de Gourmont, P. Quillard, A.-Ferdinand Hérold, A. Fontainas "L'œuvre et la passion de William Shakespeare", Péladan "Théorie plastique de l'androgyne", L. Dumur "Le Centenaire de Jean-Jacques", L. Séché "Hégésippe Moreau".
Copy enhanced with portraits of Félix Le Dantec and Jean Moréas by A. Rouveyre.
Handsome interior condition.
The '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 revived 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 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?