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Sheet music with illustrated cover in blue and brown tones featuring scenery from The Emerald Isle and a bust image of one female character above left.

Sheet music with illustrated cover in brown tones featuring five characters from Ages Ago emerging from picture frames.

Album page with four bars of music with lyric from Ages Ago: "Tis done - the spell is broken, We must away we must away (Ages Ago)" signed "Frederic Clay, New York, 29 April 1880." The reverse has a similar musical quote from Alfred Cellier's…

First night program for W. S. Gilbert's musical legend The Gentleman in Black (with music by Alfred Cellier) at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. The program also included the comedy Illusions (by Joseph J. Dilley) and the farce Captain Smith.

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

Brown tinted engraving of Kate Santley as Princess Toto in warrior costume with sheathed dagger, short skirt, cape, and flowered hat." Miss Braham's four-line facsimile autograph quote from the opera, beginning "When I wish to nerve myself to a deed…

Autograph letter concerning copyright of W. S. Gilbert and Frederic Clay's comic opera Princess Toto, originally performed in 1869

Full-length photograph of Harry Monkhouse as Bartolo and Aïda Jenoure as Nita in The Mountebanks on photographer's card mount by Alfred Ellis, London. Mount is marked "Miss Aida Jenoure & Mr Harry Monkhouse in 'The Mountebanks.'"

Full-length photograph of Jessie Bond as Nanna in His Excellency on photographer's card mount by Alfred Ellis, London. Mount is marked "Miss Jessie Bond as Nanna in 'His Excellency.'"

Inscribed copy of W. S. Gilbert's collected verse, "The Bab Ballads with which are included Songs of a Savoyard." Gilbert inscribed the front endpaper with a five-line quotation from his song "The played-out humourist" beginning "I've come to the…