Mercure de France, n°299 à n°300, tome LXXXII, année 1909

First edition.
Full soft grey cardboard binding, small stains on boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by M. Logé, Colonel de Rochas "Les Idées de Vauban sur l'organisation de l'armée", E. Henriot "La Promenade vénitienne", Stefan Zweig "Le Drame Verhaerenien", R. Schwab, L. Larguier "L'Oeil d'émeraude", L. Dumont-Wilden "André-Gide", C. Enlart, A. Paupe "Stendhal et ses livres", E. Sicard "Les Marchands", R. de Gourmont, P. Quillard, Rachilde, A. Fontainas.
Work illustrated with portraits of Colette and André Gide 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 took up 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, of Colette, of Apollinaire, of Georges Duhamel?