Here are the witty and charming librettos that have delighted generations of fans.

Complete and authentic, these are the texts on which modern performances and recordings are based

Among the songs are scattered over seventy of the amusing, quirky pictures W.S. Gilbert drew to illustrate them, and a chronology prepared for this edition sketches the authors' lives and careers.

This is a book that no lover of Gilbert and Sullivan, musical comedy, or the English theatre will want to be without.