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Program with woodcut illustrations for the MacCaull Opera Comique Company production of The Mikado at MacCaull's Opera House, Philadelphia.

Bound volume with color lithograph boards and 34 color lithograph pages of illustrations. The text is an adaptation of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant, reworded to promote the merits of the Chicago &…

Card program for John Stetson's Opera Company production of Princess Ida at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York.

Ten transcriptions of songs from Iolanthe by Ernest Perabo with color illustrated cover featuring four vignettes.

Elaborate souvenir program with ornate blue and gold toned covers and blue ribbon fastener for Collier's Standard Opera Company's 100th performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe at the Bijou Theatre, Boston. Twenty internal pages including nine…

Four trade cards depicting characters from Patience and quotes from the opera: Bunthorne ("In a rapt ecstatic way"), Jane ("I am soulfully intense), Grosvenor ("A very daisy") and Saphir (How earnestly precious"). Each has overprint in advertising…

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.

Burgundy silk souvenir program for D'Oyly Carte's 150th performance of The Pirates of Penzance at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York.

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."

Illustrated program for first night of D'Oyly Carte's production of H.M.S. Pinafore at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York. Program's brown illustrations created in London, text details in black added in New York.