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Trial by JuryFirst run program illustrated with characters and scenes from Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury at the Royalty Theatre, London. Program also…
Iolanthe: ten piano transcriptionsTen transcriptions of songs from Iolanthe by Ernest Perabo with color illustrated cover featuring four vignettes.
Costume design for Robin Oakapple in RuddigoreWatercolor over pencil drawing on card of George Grossmith as Robin Oakapple in first act of Ruddigore. Drawing is marked "Ruddigore" and "Mr.…
Autograph letter signed: W. S. Gilbert to Mrs. CudlipGilbert seeks permission to call his new play "On Guard". It opened at the Court Theatre, London, on October 28, 1871, but ran for only three weeks.…
Autograph letter signed: W. S. Gilbert to Metzler & Co.Autograph letter concerning copyright of W. S. Gilbert and Frederic Clay's comic opera Princess Toto, originally performed in 1869
W. S. Gilbert: Inscribed copy of Bab Ballads with Which are Included Songs of a SavoyardInscribed copy of W. S. Gilbert's collected verse, "The Bab Ballads with which are included Songs of a Savoyard." Gilbert inscribed the front…
Autograph letter signed: W. S. Gilbert to Joseph HarkerAutograph letter concerning the set design that Joseph Harker was working on for W. S. Gilbert and Edward German's comic opera Fallen Fairies at the…
W. S. Gilbert: inscribed copy of Original Comic Operas--First SeriesInscribed copy of a volume of eight librettos of Gilbert's comic operas. Gilbert inscribed the front endpaper with a to-line quotation from Patience…
W. S. Gilbert: inscribed copy of Original Comic Operas--Second SeriesInscribed copy of a volume of eight librettos of Gilbert's comic operas. Gilbert inscribed the front endpaper with a four-line quotation from The…
Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a SailorLibretto for H.M.S. Pinfore; or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor. Created for the first American production at the Boston Museum.