NMLP P-036223 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09

Salome

Oscar Wilde · Elkin Mathews & John Lane (London), issued simultaneously with Copeland & Day (Boston) · 1894

The London (Mathews & Lane) and Boston (Copeland & Day) imprints were issued from the same setting at essentially the same time in February 1894 to secure copyright in both Britain and the United States; the two are usually treated as a joint first edition rather than one preceding the other. The original French-language Salome had already appeared in Paris and London in 1893 — this 1894 edition is specifically the first edition IN ENGLISH.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-036223 for "Salome" by Oscar Wilde (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036223, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).