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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,…

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…

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…

Decorative program and menu for the "Savoyard Celebration Dinner" sponsored by the O.P. Club, and held at the Hotel Cecil, Strand, London. The event celebrates the start of the first London repertory season of Gilbert & Sullivan operas. W. S.…

Autograph letter concerning the set design that Joseph Harker was working on for W. S. Gilbert and Edward German's comic opera Fallen Fairies at the Savoy Theatre, London.

First run program for W. S. Gilbert's Haste to the Wedding (a musical version of Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie with music by George Grossmith) at the Criterion Theatre, London. The program also included the operetta Poor Mignonette (music by…

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…

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

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…

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