Mercure de France, n°106 à n°108, tome XXVIII, année 1898

First edition.
Contemporary soft grey cardboard binding, light stains on front cover, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by H. de Régnier "Stéphane Mallarmé", P. Louÿs, F. Viélé-Griffin, G. Kahn "Roger Marx", E. Barthélémy "Thomas Carlyle", G. Eekhoud, R. de Gourmont, Rachilde, C. Morice "Le Couronnement de la Reine de Hollande et l'exposition de Rembrandt", A. Mockel, G. Fabre "Tendresses, partitions de musique sur la prose de P. Louÿs, H.-G. Wells "La Machine à explorer le temps", Y. Lefebvre " Contes celtiques".
Copy illustrated with drawings by H. Detouche, A. Rassenfosse and R. Thomen.
Handsome interior condition.
The 'Mercure de France' originated as a French journal, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which evolved to become, in the 20th century, a publishing house.
Under the guidance of Rémy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry, a literary review revived the name 'Mercure de France' in 1890 and published 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.