The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts

An Irish true first: Maunsel & Co., Dublin, 1907, with no simultaneous London or New York edition to displace it — Synge wrote in English, so no original-language question arises. The census claim of an Irish true first with 25 large-paper copies is confirmed; its only gap is the wrappers-over-cloth priority within that first edition. Later American printings (Boston, John W. Luce) and subsequent London and collected-works appearances are reprints or first-thus, not the first edition; dates for those were not confirmed in this pass and should not be published without a separate check.