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First run program for W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's grotesque opera in two acts Thespis; or The Gods Grown Old, at the Gaiety Theatre, London. The program also included Henry J. Byon's three-act drama Dearer Than Life.

Libretto of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's grotesque opera in two acts Thespis; or The Gods Grown Old. It was produced at the Gaiety Theatre, London, 23 December 1871.

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

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…

Large full color poster for D'Oyly Carte's Opera Company's touring production of The Yeomen of the Guard. Image features three vignettes, each with two characters from the opera.

Picture book of full page scenes and quotations from The Yeomen of the Guard. Six pages of full color, six in black and red only. The drawings are based on the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's Savoy Theatre production of 1887-1888. Full color cover…

Sheet music with illustrated cover in black and gray tones featuring two vignette, one of a yeoman warder, the other of two women and a jester.

Collection of eleven songs in elaborate bound volume with text by Alfred Tennyson, music by Arthur Sullivan.

First edition libretto ("Printed for Private Circulation Only") of W. S. Gilbert's "entirely original fairy comedy" The Wicked World, inscribed on front cover by Gilbert (to critic Moy Thomas) "With the author's compliments." The Wicked World was …

Sheet music with illustrated cover in full color featuring two characters from The Vicar of Bray, Lady Merton and the Vicar.