Small ink drawing of seated man in ruff collar reading a book, signed "Bab." The drawing was used to illustrate the song "A man who would woo a fair maid," from The Yeomen of the Guard, which appeared on page 75 of Songs of a Savoyard.
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 &…
Double page lithograph cartoon in green and orange tones, featuring Ulysses Grant as Captain of the "Third Term Pinafore," surrounded by other politicians in Pinafore costumes. Ten-line verse beneath Grant beginning "I was so good a General that I…
Souvenir program for W. S. Gilbert's original domestic pantomime in two acts Harlequin and the Fairy's Dilemma and his "tragic episode, in three tabloids" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. This was a single benefit performance at the Garrick Theatre,…
Color lithograph cartoon on front cover of Puck featuring Samuel J. Tilden as Reginal Bunthorne holding a sunflower labeled "1884," and the Democratic Party of the United States as twenty love-sick maidens from Gilbert & Sullivan's aesthetic opera…
A Letter from Miss Henrietta Hobson, an Actress, to the Members of the Dramatic Profession, being a relation of the persecutions which she has suffered from Mr. William Schwenck Gilbert, A Dramatic Author.