Mercure de France, n°365 à n°369, tome XCIX, année 1912

First edition.
Full flexible mouse-grey cardboard binding, -inverted- original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by C. Chassé "Mallarmé universitaire", A. David "Auprès du Dalaï-Lama", R. Lauret "Henri de Kleist, poète érotique", H. Gauthier-Villars "Tschaïkowsky d'après sa correspondance", P. Escoube "Jules Laforgue, Chevalier du Graal", C. Régismanset "La Politique indigène en Algérie, ou une crise de domination", R. Ranft "L'Illustre famille", R. Descharmes "Les Connaissances médicales de Flaubert", J. de Gaultier "Le Lyrisme intérieur et la peinture de paysage : M. Auguste Poitelin", Mme Baudelaire-Aupick "Lettres à Charles Asselineau", Dr P. Voivenel "Le Chant du cygne (Nietzsche, Rousseau, Schumann, Maupassant)", R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, G. Duhamel, G. Kahn.
Copy enhanced with portraits of the Duchess of Uzès, Saint-Pol-Roux, Louis Mandin, Ricciotto Canudo and Georges d'Esparbès by André Rouveyre.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originated as 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 impetus of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review adopted 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 Parnassian poets (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?