Lucie DELARUE MARDRUS (1874-1945) Autograph manuscript signed, Horizons, [1908]; 124 fol. pages, white silk-covered hardcover binding, smooth spine, slipcase. Complete manuscript of this poetic collection, published in 1905 by Eugène Fasquelle. The manuscript was carefully cleaned up on the front pages and used for printing. There are a few corrections, some (notably to change the titles of a few poems) by Dr. Mardrus, who copied the poems Nuptiale, Amertume and La Vaillance, and drew up the Table du recueil. The collection comprises 101 poems, and is divided into nine parts: Tendresses, Le long des jardins et de l'eau, Des Bêtes, Le Songe d'un soir rouge, La Mort, Δ, Phantasmes, De moi-même, Le Départ.