Containing Marx's central concept of surplus value, this first edition in English is translated from the third German edition of Moore and Aveling, is edited by Engels and incorporates substantial revisions Marx made for the first French translation (1872-5). The remainder was constructed by Engels from Marx's posthumous papers. 'Only this first part of Marx's magnum opus appeared in his lifetime,' with its publication in German in 1867 (PMM 359).

It is doubtful that any figure in history has inspired more violently contradictory opinions than Karl Marx' (Downs, 22). 'In his funeral eulogy for Karl Marx, Engels concluded that 'Marx was above all a revolutionary'. Capital rapidly acquired readership throughout the world, to become a work described by Marxs collaborator Friedrich Engels as the Bible of the working. wrote to Engels while the volume was still in the press, 'I hope the bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles all the rest of their lives.' Carbuncles, financial embarrassment and political preoccupations of many kinds hampered Marx's work on Das Kapital, which he would never have completed but for the material and moral support of Engels'.' (PMM 359). The 'Athenaeum' reviewer of the first English translation (1887) later wrote: 'Under the guise of a critical analysis of capital, Karl Marx's work is principally a polemic against capitalists and the capitalist mode of production, and it is this polemical tone which is its chief charm.' The historical-polemical passages, with their formidable documentation from British official sources, have remained memorable and, as Marx'. It was in fact the summation of his quarter of a century's economic studies'. 'Marx himself modestly described Das Kapital as a continuation of his Zur Kritik des Politischen Oekonomie, 1859. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. This work is usually encountered in far less condition. A superior example, as most examples have been rebound. In near fine condition with the spine gilt bright, light rubbing to the extremities, small stamp to the title page. Translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, edited by Friedrich Engels.

Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production.įirst edition in English of Karl Marx’s seminal work in both economic and political thought.

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