Pelléas et Mélisande

The true first edition is the original-language French: Bruxelles, Paul Lacomblez, 1892 (the text behind Debussy's 1902 opera). The first English-language appearance is Erving Winslow's translation, "Pelléas and Mélisande: A Drama in Five Acts," Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (New York, also Boston), 1894 — the earliest located English edition; a Richard Hovey translation followed (1896). It is often confused with Laurence Alma-Tadema's London translation, "Pelleas and Melisanda, and The Sightless: Two Plays" (The Scott Library), Walter Scott, London, 1895 — note her spelling "Melisanda." English-speaking collectors should treat the 1894 Crowell/Winslow as the first English and the 1895 Walter Scott/Alma-Tadema as the first British.