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

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

Inner cigar box label for "Opera Kings" cigars, design in gold and sepia, featuring large sepia images of Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert in the center. This is a salesman's sample with ordering details at the bottom.

Outer cigar box label for "Pinafore" cigars, design in blue and beige, with "Pinafore" in banner at top, scene from H.M.S. Pinafore beneath with Josephine, Ralph Rackstraw, Tom Tucker in foreground.

Inner cigar box label for "Patience" cigars, design in full color, featuring two vignettes from Patience. On the left in an oval is the milkmaid Patience, her left elbow resting on her milk pail, in the upper right is the poets Bunthorne, surrounded…

Souvenir marking the 100th performance of Arthur Sullivan's grand opera Ivanhoe (words by Julian Sturgis) at the Royal English Opera, 25 May 1891, written by Lewis Hind, with illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen, Herbert Railton, John Jellicoe, and…

A Letter from Miss Henrietta Hobson, an Actress, to the Members of the Dramatic Profession, being a relation of the persecutions which she has suffered from Mr. William Schwenck Gilbert, A Dramatic Author.

Souvenir program on card stock for R. D'Oyly Carte Company's 80th performance of The Mikado at the Hollis Street Theatre, Boston. Cover image of Pitti-Sing, Yum-Yum, and Peep-Bo.

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…

Four volumes of stories, poems, cartoons, and puzzles, each containing several contributions by W. S. Gilbert. The Annual for 1873 also includes a story by Mark Twain. The volume is displayed open to Gilbert's two-page cartoon "Mr. Peters Takes a…