Mercure de France, n°311 à n°312, tome LXXXV, année 1910

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by P. Quillard, E. Magne "Jeunes filles du XVIIè siècle", F. Mauriac, G. de Lautrec "Mark Twain", J. de Gaultier, L. Séché "Balzac et Mme de Girardin", L. Pergaud "La Captivité de Margot", E. Raynaud "Jules Renard", M.-A. Leblond "La captivité dune langue : le polonais", E. Barré "La Généalogie définitive de Leconte de Lisle", A. Vallette "Le Monument de Paul Verlaine".
Copy illustrated with portraits of S.-C. Leconte, and J.-H. Rosny aîné by A. Rouveyre.
Interior in handsome condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originally was 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 impulse of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review took up 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 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, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?