Mercure de France, n°345 à n°348, tome XCIV, année 1911

First edition.
Full soft grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by H. Mazel "Le Cromwell de Carlyle", A. Rouveyre, E. Pilon "Autour de Buffon : madame Daubenton et sa fille", J. Galzy "L'Ensevelie", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, R. Lauret "La France immoraliste", R. Dumesnil "Madame Bovary et son temps", M. Beaubourg "Albert Fleury", P. Quillard, G. Batault "Le Positivisme scientifique et son critique Émile Meyerson", C. Siger "La Valeur de l'Accord franco-allemand", G. de Lautrec "Robert-Louis Stevenson", P. Maurel "La Maison où est mort Watteau à Nogent-sur-Marne".
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French periodical, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become a publishing house in the 20th century.
Under the influence 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, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?