Mercure de France, n°309 à n°310, tome LXXXV, année 1910

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved.
Contributions by Saint-Alban, H. Thuile, N. Clifford Barney "Poésies", L.Dumur "Le Centenaire de Jean-Jacques II-fin", G. Hue "Femme et gendre d'homme de Lettres : la famille de Restif de la Bretonne", A. Spire, L. Tolstoï "Lettre à un paysan sur la science", A. Paupe "Stendhal et ses éditeurs", R. de Gourmont, P. Quillard, Rachilde.
Copy illustrated with portraits of Vicomte Melchior de Vogüe and Enrique Larreta by A. Rouveyre.
Handsome interior condition.
'Mercure de France' was originally a French periodical, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review resumed 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 was born in its wake. It notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?