Mercure de France, n°449 à n°452, tome CXX, année 1917

First edition.
Contemporary binding in flexible grey mouse-colored cardboard, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by D. Bellet "Science germanique et réalisme industriel", J. Giraudoux "La Journée portugaise", P. Peltier "La Terreur prussienne et Dumas père", Dostoïevski "Niétotchka Nezvanova", Rachilde, M. Simart "H.-G. Wells sociologue", H. Viollet "Les Fronts d'Asie", A. Erlande "En Campagne avec la Légion étrangère".
Copy enhanced with drawings by A. Rouveyre.
Handsome 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 impetus of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review resumed 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?