Front matter
Reading edition
A PLAY
BY OSCAR WILDE
METHUEN & CO., LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON
Eighth Edition
First Printed 1894
First Issued by Methuen and Co. (Limited Editions on Handmade Paper and Japanese Vellum) February 1908
Third Edition September 1909
Fourth Edition May 1910
Fifth Edition December 1911
Sixth Edition March 1913
Seventh Edition (Cheap Form) October 1916
Eighth Edition 1919
The dramatic rights of ‘A Woman of No Importance’ belong to Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and to Robert Ross, executor and administrator of Oscar Wilde’s estate.
TO GLADYS COUNTESS DE GREY
[MARCHIONESS OF RIPON]