Mercure de France, n°373 à n°376, tome CI, année 1913

First edition.
Contemporary binding in gray mouse-colored flexible paper boards, an angular fold on the first cover, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by J. Mariel, A. Spire, G. Duhamel "Paul Claudel", T. Klingsor "Poèmes de Bohème", E. Montfort "Les Noces folles", H. Dérieux "Stuart Merrill", H. Schoen "De l'origine corse de Christophe Colomb", Dr E. Levrat "La Médecine dans l'œuvre de Huysmans", M. Coulon "Le Symbolisme d'Ephraïm Mikhaël", A. Rémond "Faust et Saint-Sébastien", G. Hochard "Ingres à Meung-sur-Loire", R. de Gourmont, G. Duhamel, Rachilde, E. de Rougemont "Portraits graphologiques : MM. Vincent d'Indy, Emile Verhaeren, Rémy de Gourmont, Henri Bergson, André Rouveyre, Stuart Merrill, Mme Lafarge".
Copy embellished with portraits of the Marquise de Mac-Mahon, Juliette Marget, Georges de Porto-Riche and Nathalie Clifford Barney by André Rouveyre.
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, 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 would publish the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) as well as 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, Colette, Apollinaire, Georges Duhamel?