Mercure de France, n°425 à n°428, tome CXIV, année 1916

First edition.
Full soft grey mouse-colored paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by G. Danville "Les Cinq-bras", J. Anglade "La Poésie patriotique dans la littérature contemporaine méridionale", J. Chopin "L'Autriche-Hongrie 'brillant second' ", P. Sardou "Racine et Boileau en campagne", F. Viélé-Griffin "In Memoriam Olivier Hourcade", W. Whitman "Edgar Poe, Carlyle, Emerson, pages de journal", C. Merki, G. Kahn "Louis Raemaekers", Rachilde, A. Marguillier "Le Drame de Mayerling", J. de Gourmont, R. Scheffer.
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 a publishing house in the 20th century.
Under the impetus 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, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?