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London: John Lane, 1894. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 1st edition, newly rebound in brown leather with a gilt-stamped red leather title piece and Florentine marbled endpapers. New binding fine; the text pages are about good plus. All are toned brown near the edges. The first blank (of 2 before the title page) bears a gift inscr. in French; that page also chipped at the corners. An owner's name is upside down on the final blank. 154 pp. + 16-p. publisher's catalog.

A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy. It explores themes of English upper class society and highlights the double standards between men and women during the Victorian era.

To determine if a copy of 'A Woman of No Importance' is a first edition, one would look for the publication details from John Lane's The Bodley Head, check for the date of 1893, and any notes, prefaces, or forewords that are included in later editions would not be present.