Mercure de France, n°441 à n°444, tome CXVIII, année 1916

First edition.
Full soft grey cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by R. Gillouin "Maurras, Lemaître, Barrès, apologètes", M. Rabusson, Rachilde, C.-H. Hirsch, J. Chopin, L. Narquet "Le Machinisme, le Progrès et la Moraleé, F.-R. Vanderpyl "Marsden Stanton à Paris", T. Carlyle "Correspondance avec R. Browning", E. de Kayser "Une Oeuvre napoléonienne de pénétration dans le Grand Désert", H. Clouzot "Du goût de l'ancien chez les Modernes", G. Maurevert "De la particule et de la 'particulomanie' ", Dostoïevski "Niétotchka Nezvanova", C. Merki, G. Kahn.
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 a publishing house in the 20th century.
Under the influence of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review revived 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 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?