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Double page color lithograph cartoon featuring caricatures of members of the National Trotting Association as characters in The Mikado. From The Horseman.

Libretto for Captain Billy, an operetta in one act written for the Savoy Theatre, London. Words by Harry Greenbank, and music by François Cellier.

Large burgundy silk souvenir celebrating the grand reopening of the Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds, with a touring production of The Mikado by R. D'Oyly Carte's Celebrated Repertoire Opera Company.

Program for Rudolph Aronson's Comic Opera Company's performance at the Globe Theatre, Boston.

Farewell benefit program for Emily Soldene at The Globe Theatre, Boston. Program includes Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury, The Waterman (musical burletta by Charles Dibden) and the 1st and 2nd acts of Chilperic (opera bouffe by Hervé).

Gilbert's self-portrait is captioned "I am an Englishman. Behold me!", a line from Ralph Rackstraw in H.M.S. Pinafore. Sullivan's musical quote is from his drawing room ballad "Once Again."

Libretto for the first American production of Gilbert & Sullivan's opera The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and his Maid, by the Rudolph Aronson Company at New York's Casino Theatre, beginning 17 October 1888. The Aronson production was…

Libretto for the first American production of Gilbert & Sullivan's supernatural opera Ruddygore; or, The Witch's Curse, by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at New York's Fifth Avenue Theatre, beginning 22 January 1887. Unlike in the United Kingdom,…

Standard Theatre edition of the libretto for Gilbert & Sullivan's aesthetic opera Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride including six full page illustrations of characters in the opera. Authorized copyright edition.

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.