Contributions to Fun humor magazine
- The Comic Physiognomist (early '60s)
- A number of burlesque dramatic reviews (1865-1871)
- Bab Ballads (first collection: 1869)
Burlesque Plays
- Dulcamara! or, The Little Duck and the Great Quack (1866)
- La Vivandiere; or, True to the Corps! (1867)
Miscellaneous Plays From Before and During the Savoy Period
- An Old Score (1869)
Fairy Plays
- The Palace of Truth (1870-71)
- Gilbert's Contributions to London Characters (1871)
- The Wicked World
The Savoy Operas (scored by Sir Arthur Sullivan, produced by Richard D'Oyly Carte)
- Trial By Jury (1875)
- The Sorcerer (1877)
- H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor (1878)
- "Sir Joseph Porter's Song" ("When I was a Lad I served a Term")
- The Pirates of Penzance (1879)
- Patience (1881)
- Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri (1882)
- Princess Ida (1884)
- The Mikado (1885)
- Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse (1887)
- The Yeomen of the Guard (1888)
- The Gondoliers (1889)
- Utopia Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress (1893)
- The Grand Duke; or, The Statutory Duel (1896)
Post-Savoy
- The Mountebanks (1892)
- Haste to the Wedding (1892)
2 April 2005