Description
Limited edition of A Woman Of No Importance by Oscar Wilde, printed in Paris in 1903. Small quarto, 154pp. Light brown linen, title in gilt on spine. Wear to boards from handling. Bookplate of C.W. Whitaker affixed to front endpaper. Light toning to endpapers. From a limited edition of 250 copies, this being unnumbered.
Comments: This scarce publication was an exact reproduction of the 1893 edition, published in London. It was anonymously printed by Leonard Smithers and has been called the “Pirated Edition.”