Mercure de France, n°377 à n°380, tome CII, année 1913

First edition.
Full flexible grey mouse-colored cardboard binding, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by R. de Gourmont "Philosophie du cliché", A. Fontainas "Rembrandt chez lui", F. Nietzsche "Nous qui sommes sans crainte", C. Guérin "La Volupté originelle", H.-G. Wells "La Machine à explorer le temps", P. Louÿs, G. Moore "Les Conditions actuelles de l'art dramatique en Angleterre", C. Merki "Georges Rodenbach", E. Barthélémy "Thomas Carlyle", F. Viélé-Griffin "La désespérance du Parnasse", H. Mazel "Sociologues contemporains : Emile Durkheim, Rachilde.
Copy decorated with unpublished drawings by R. Thomen.
Handsome interior condition.
'Mercure de France' was originally a French review, founded in the 17th century under the name 'Mercure Galant', which would evolve 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 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 notably published the first works of Gide and Claudel, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?