Mercure de France, n°325 à n°328, tome LXXXIX, année 1911

First edition.
Full flexible mouse-grey paper boards binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by E. Gaubert "Pierre Louÿs", A. Rouveyre "Louis Pergaud" and "F. Viélé-Griffin", A.-Ferdinand Hérold "Les Anciennes adaptations françaises de Roméo et Juliette", M. de Noisay "L'Esprit de Jean Moréas", G. Soulages "La Terrible question Pommié", E. Emile-Masson "Jane Welsh et Thomas Carlyle", L. Tailhade "Quelques notes sur Balzac", A. Rébelliau "Une Amitié féminine de Lamennais", A. Maybon "Socialistes et régicides japonais", E. Tassy "Le Rire et la sensibilité mentale", L. Séché "Lamartine et Elvire", J. Giraudoux "Bernard, le faible Bernard", A. Aharonian "Nuit d'automne", E. Poe "Deux contes".
Good 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 influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review revived 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?