The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere's Fan

First Published 1899 First Issued by Methuen and Co. (Limited Edition on Hand-made Paper and Japanese Vellum) February 1908 Third Edition (Uniform Edition) October 1909 Fourth Edition (Uniform Edition) February 1910 Fifth Edition (Uniform Edition) December 1911 Sixth Edition (Uniform Edition) November 1912 Seventh Edition (Cheap Form) January 1915 Eighth Edition (Cheap Form) July 1916 Ninth Edition (Cheap Form) April 1917 Tenth Edition (Uniform Edition) November 1917 Eleventh Edition (Cheap Form) December 1917 Twelfth Edition (Cheap Form) November 1919 Thirteenth Edition (Uniform Edition) September 1919 Fourteenth Edition (Cheap Form) November 1920 Fifteenth Edition (Cheap Form) March 1922 Sixteenth Edition (Uniform Edition) September 1923 Seventeenth Edition (Crown 8vo) December 1923 Eighteenth Edition (Fap. 8vo) November 1924 Nineteenth Edition (Fcap. 8vo) November 1925 Twentieth Edition (Fap. 8vo) January 1928 Twenty-first Edition (Fcap. 8vo) August 1930 Twenty-second Edition (Fap. 8vo) February 1931 Twenty-third Edition (Fcap. So) December 1933 Twenty-fourth Edition (Fountain Library) 1936 Published in Penguin Books 1940 ________________

The literary and dramatic rights of The Importance of Being Earnest belong to Capt. Vyvyan B. Holland, by arrangement with whom the play is included in this edition. The acting version (Samuel French) does not contain the complete text.