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Sheet music in illustrated cover in color featuring the actor Arthur Cecil above four lines of lyric from the song "The Tyrannical Bridegroom."

Sheet music with illustrated cover in black and blue tones featuring sorcerer in top hat incanting over flaming teapot before soldier and bride.

First run program illustrated with characters and scenes from Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera The Sorcerer at the Opera Comique, London. Program also included revival of Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury.

Paper program for a 23 November 1879 concert at the Boston Music Hall, under the sponsorship of the Handel and Haydn Society. Program featured Hector Berlioz's oratorio The Flight into Egypt and Arthur Sullivan's oratorio The Light of the World,…

First edition piano vocal score of The Prodigal Son published by Boosey & Co., London. Presentation copy to R. Brown Borthwick "from the Composer, Sept. 8, 1869. Presentation inscription is in the hand of Sullivan's mother, Maria Clementina…

First night program for W. S. Gilbert's musical extravaganza The Pretty Druidess; or, the Mother, the Maid and the Mistletoe Bough at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. The program also included the operatic sketch Coming of Age (music by E. L.…

Sheet music with full color illustrated cover featuring Richard Temple as the Pirate King holding black skull-and-crossbones flag over left shoulder.

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

Playbill for Tony Pastor's burlesque The Pie-Rats of Penn Yann, a burlesque of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, at Tony Pastor's Theatre, New York. Playbill includes both cast of characters and a synopsis of incidents, with sample…

Piano score of Arthur Sullivan's incidental music to Shakespeare's The Tempest, arranged for four hands.