This book expands on Leslie Baily's seminal work, The Gilbert and Sullivan Book.
The author says, in a note at the outset, "Since I wrote The Gilbert and Sullivan Book twenty years ago, further research has discovered fresh facts, whilst others have been revised. The present volume concentrates on the span of Gilbert and Sullivan's lives alone, and the opportunity has been taken to reassess the cultural contributions they made, with D'Oyly Carte, to their world, to posterity and not least to the gaiety of nations."
There are a mammoth 143 illustrations in this volume, most of which do not appear in Mr Baily's previous work.
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