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Color lithograph card depicting nine characters from H.M.S. Pinafore on shipboard with two huge spools of cotton thread. The Captain, center, asserts that he never "used anything equal to Willimantic six cord spool cotton."

Full-length photograph of two performers in Pygmalion and Galatea on photographer's card mount by Stereoscopic Company, London. Mount is marked "'Pygmalion and Galatea' | Mr Kendal and Miss Madge Robertson." Galatea admires herself in hand mirror…

Volume of stories, poems, cartoons, burlesques, puzzles, containing several contributions by W. S. Gilbert, including the burlesque Ruy Blas, the cartoon The History of the Gentleman Who was Born at an Advanced Age, and a chapter of The 5 Alls titled…

Full-length photograph of Walter Passmore as the Devil in The Beauty Stone on photographer's card mount by Alfred Ellis, London. Mount is marked "Mr. Walter Passmore in 'The Beauty Stone.'"

Libretto for H.M.S. Pinfore; or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor. "Hebe's song," words by John A. Cockerill printed on inside back cover.

Inscribed copy of a volume of eight librettos of Gilbert's comic operas. Gilbert inscribed the front endpaper with a four-line quotation from The Gondoliers beginning "The end is easily foretold;...," signed and dated it "6 June 1907." Vera Holme,…

Inscribed copy of a volume of eight librettos of Gilbert's comic operas. Gilbert inscribed the front endpaper with a to-line quotation from Patience beginning "Sad is that woman's lot who year by year...," signed and dated it "6 June 1907." Vera…

Inscribed copy of W. S. Gilbert's collected verse, "The Bab Ballads with which are included Songs of a Savoyard." Gilbert inscribed the front endpaper with a five-line quotation from his song "The played-out humourist" beginning "I've come to the…

Full length photograph of Jessie Bond in feathered cap removing keys from W. H. Denny dressed as jailer and holding thumbscrew on photographer's card mount of Barraud, London.

Full length photograph of two actresses in tropical backdrop, one reclining in hammock, the other standing to right on photographer's card mount of Alfred Ellis, London.