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 &…
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.
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.