Mercure de France, n°481 à n°484, tome CXXVIII, année 1918

First edition.
Full soft mouse-grey paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by A. Digeon "Emerson et la caractère anglais", A. Rouveyre, Rachilde "Oscar Wilde et Lui", E. Montfort, G. Apollinaire, G. Audibert, C. Merki "Près du beffroi de Comines", C. Siger,G.-L. Tautain "Péladan", A. Spire, G. Duhamel "La Possession du monde".
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' was originally a French periodical, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which would evolve 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 featured Symbolist texts, notably by Jean Moréas, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, Louis Dumur. Gradually gaining recognition, this review would publish both the greatest Parnassians (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Heredia, etc.) and witness the emergence of Jarry's Pataphysics.
The publishing house was born in its wake. It published notably the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?