Manifesto of the Communist Party.

London: William Reeves,, 1907. A spectre is haunting Europe - the first authorized English translation of the Communist Manifesto Fourth edition of Samuel Moore's English translation of the Communist Manifesto, the first to be authorized, edited by Engels and with a four-page preface specially written by him for this translation, as well as eight footnotes. Based on the German edition of either 1872 or 1883, Engel's role in the translation was quite extensive; he personally chose the translator and negotiated with the publisher, emphasizing on several occasions both the importance and difficulties of an English translation. The preface is the longest and the most important of any that Engels wrote for the Manifesto, and this is the only translation edited by him, with additional notes. The translation includes a large number of modifications of expression, omissions, and minor additions. First published by Reeves in March 1888, it is the second edition of the Communist Manifesto to be distributed in bookshops, preceded only by the Swedish translation of 1848, all earlier publications being either in periodicals or distributed by socialist organisations. According to an exchange between Andréas and William Arnold Reeves, the stereotype plates made in 1888 were used for pages 3-31 of all the English editions of the Manifesto published by Reeves, with modifications to the title page and terminal advertisement leaf. This fourth edition was probably published in 1907. "Of exceptional importance was the authorized English translation of 1888 (by Samuel Moore, translator of Marx's Das Kapital), the only translation personally edited and annotated by Engels, although he edited and prefaced a German text published in London in 1890" (PMM). Bound up with the Manifesto are the following additional works: MARX: Karl. Wage-Labour and Capital. 32 pages. With introduction by Engels dated April 30 1891. Without title page. See Draper M968. MARX, Karl. Value, Price, and Profit. Addressed to Workingmen. Edited by his daughter Eleanor Marx Aveling, with an introduction and annotations by Lucien Sanial. New York: New York Labor News Company, 1901. xiii, 74 pages + 8 unnumbered pages of advertisements. Ownership stamps of H. H. King to head of title page, ink side ruling to introduction. See Draper M971. LEON, Daniel de. What means this strike? Address delivered by Daniel de Leon in the City Hall of New Bedford, Mass, February 11, 1898. New York: Socialist Labor Party, 1920? Pages 3-26 + 4 pages of advertisements, without title-page and final leaf. LEON, Daniel. Two Pages from Roman History. New York:Socialist Labour Party, 1902. 48 pages. Without title page. SOCIALIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN. Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. Third edition. London: Socialist Party of Great Britain, 1905. 16 pages. Without title page. Octavo (175 x 116 mm), 32 pp. Bound with five other socialist works (see below) in red pebbled cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Ownership stamp of H. H. King to upper margin of preface, scattered underlining and marginal side-ruling in ink. Printing error to last line of page 26 as described by Andréas. Spine and extremities lightly rubbed Title page and last leaf lightly soiled, occasional spotting. Andréas 473; Draper ME33. See Printing and the Mind of Man 326