Mercure de France, n°417 à n°420, tome CXII, année 1915

First edition.
Full flexible mouse-grey paper boards binding, small stains on the boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by G. Batault "Les Ecrivains militaires français et la guerre", H. Dérieux "Le Souvenir d'Eschyle", P. Valéry "La Conquête allemande", M. Réja, R. de Gourmont, J. Benda, C. Morice "L'Ame allemande par l'art allemand", C. Merki, L. Dumur "Rémy de Gourmont", H.-D Davray "Les origines et les débuts de Lloyd George", E. Zavie "Prisonniers de guerre", P. de Lanux "Poèmes héroïques de la Serbie".
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?