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Small card program for Children's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S Pinafore at the Boston Museum.

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.…

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.

Illustrated program for W. S. Gilbert's three act farcical comedy On Bail at the Criterion Theatre, London. The program also includes the comic drama Dorothy's Stratagem (by James Mortimer).

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

Card program for John Stetson's Opera Company production of Princess Ida at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York.

Illustrated program for first night of D'Oyly Carte's production of H.M.S. Pinafore at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York. Program's brown illustrations created in London, text details in black added in New York.

First run program for W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's grotesque opera in two acts Thespis; or The Gods Grown Old, at the Gaiety Theatre, London. The program also included Henry J. Byon's three-act drama Dearer Than Life.

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,…

First edition libretto of W. S. Gilbert's extravaganza Dulcamara; or, The Little Duck and the Great Quack. Gilbert’s first acknowledged stage work, Dulcamara was a burlesque of Donizetti’s opera L’Elisir d’Amore. It was produced at the St. James’s…