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Souvenir of Rupert D'Oyly Carte's Season…
Souvenir with card cover, purple ribbon, and color drawing of female character in The Mikado with floral mushroom hat, kimono with design of stylized trees and holding flat round fan in extended right hand. Souvenir illustrates in photos and…
W. S. Gilbert: inscribed copy of Original Comic Operas--Second Series
Inscribed copy of a volume of eight librettos of Gilbert's comic operas. Gilbert inscribed the front endpaper with a four-line quotation from The Gondoliers beginning "The end is easily foretold;...," signed and dated it "6 June 1907." Vera Holme,…
W. S. Gilbert: inscribed copy of Original Comic Operas--First Series
Inscribed copy of a volume of eight librettos of Gilbert's comic operas. Gilbert inscribed the front endpaper with a to-line quotation from Patience beginning "Sad is that woman's lot who year by year...," signed and dated it "6 June 1907." Vera…
Last Performance of the Present Season
Program for the last performance of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's first London repertory season at the Savoy Theatre, London. The program consisted of Act I of The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II of The Gondoliers, Act II of Patience, a scene from…
The Emerald Isle Lancers
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.
The Chieftain Lancers
Sheet music with illustrated cover in brown featuring five characters from The Chieftain in two vignettes.
Haddon Hall Polka
Sheet music with illustrated cover in brown and green tones featuring five characters from Haddon Hall in two vignettes.
A Souvenir of "Ivanhoe"
Souvenir marking the 100th performance of Arthur Sullivan's grand opera Ivanhoe (words by Julian Sturgis) at the Royal English Opera, 25 May 1891, written by Lewis Hind, with illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen, Herbert Railton, John Jellicoe, and…
Tom Cobb and The Zoo
Program for the farcical comedy Tom Cobb by W. S. Gilbert and the "musical folly" The Zoo by "Bolton Rowe" [real name B. C. Stephenson] and Arthur Sullivan at St. James's Theatre, London. The program also included Charles Selby's Farce The Dancing…
The Contrabandista; or, The Law of the Ladrones
Program with lyrics for The Contrabandista; or, The Law of the Ladrones (music by Arthur Sullivan, words by F. C. Burnand) at St. George's Opera House, London. The program also includes Ching-Chow-Hi, an operatic extravaganza (by Offenbach).