Mercure de France, n°321 à n°324, tome LXXXVIII, année 1910

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved.
Contributions by P. Berrichon "Rimbaud en 1870-71, notes inédites", P. Leguay, V. Doussy, J. Sageret, H. Charasson "Les Origines de la Sentimentalité moderne, d'Hélisenne de Crenne à Jean de Tinan", L. Séché, H. Spiess, P. Frémeaux "Sainte-Hélène pendant la captivité de Napoléon", F. Baldensperger "Joseph de Maistre et Alfred de Vigny", P. Quillard "Edmond Fazy, poète et prosateur moderne", R. Kipling "Le Désespoir du singe", P. Louis "Les Origines du capitalisme antique", L. Pergaud, T. de Visan "Le Romantisme allemand et le Symbolisme français", F. Jammes "Les Géorgiques chrétiennes", G. Soulages "La Terrible question Pommié I-XI", C. Baudelaire "Pages de Carnet", published by Félix Gautier with facsimiles of the poet's manuscript.
Copy illustrated with portraits of H. Baüer, G. Eekhoud, O. Mirbeau 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?