Mercure de France, n°389 à n°392, tome CV, année 1913

First edition.
Contemporary binding in soft mouse-gray paper boards, original wrappers preserved.
Contributions by G. Brandès "Hernik Ibsen intime", J. Bouchon "LAéroplane sur la mer", P. Champion "Clercs et écoliers du temps de François Villon", L. Pergaud "Les Rustiques", R. de Gourmont, G.Duhamel, H. Loyson, L. Séché "Les Amitiés littéraires d'Alfred de Vigny", H. Thuile, O. Wilde "La Renaissance anglaise de l'art", L. Tailhade "Le Vrai mystère de la passion", L. Péru de Lacroix "Bolivar jugé par un officier de Napoléon", M. Pays "La Dernière chevauchée, P. Escoube "Verlaine et l'amour", R. D'Humières "Renaissance catholique", P. Castiaux "Loin quelqu'un chante sur la route", G. Duhamel "Le Théâtre du Vieux Colombier", E. Reclus "Lettres inédites", P. Berrichon "A Propos de la nouvelle édition des 'Oeuvres' de Rimbaud", H. Bachelin, H.-D. Davray "Le Secret de Charlotte Brontë", A. Spire, A. Ransome "L'Art pour la vie", M. Beaubourg "Le Houdan".
Pleasant 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 resumed the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and presented 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, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?