Colley Cibber.- Pitts (J.) Colley Cibber's Whimsical Wager as related at Drury-Lane Theatre, letterpress handbill, 270 x 220 mm (10 1/2 x 8 3/4 in), minor finger-soiling, unframed, 1785; together with two variant handbills 'Colley Cibber's Trench-Makers (As related by him at Drury Lane Theatre)', one on blue paper, unframed, [1785] (3)
⁂ 'Cibber was engaged in a paper war with Pope, and being told one day that Pope intended to prosecute him for making to free with his character...was provoked [to...] bet one hundred guineas, that he would bid Pope kiss his arse in the public play house, bid the company he sat with kiss his arse...and in conclusion, bid the whole house kiss his arse all together....'
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