MARX (Karl). & [ENGELS (Friedrich).]

Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Or, Germany in 1848. Edited by Eleanor Marx Aveling.

First edition in English. Small 8vo. xi, [1], 148, [4, publisher’s advertisements] pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, front cover lettered and ruled in black, top edge untrimmed (neat contemporary ownership inscription of ‘E. Stitchell’ to front free endpaper, offsetting to half title and terminal leaf, contents otherwise generally clean; cloth somewhat marked, superficial split to front hinge holding firmly, corners gently bruised, notwithstanding a very good copy, nicer than usually encountered). London, Swan Sonneschein & Co., Ltd, 1896.

£950.00

‘Marx was asked in the summer of 1851 by Charles Anderson Dana, managing editor of the New York Tribune, to write a series of articles on the German Revolution. These articles were written by Engels at the request of Marx, who was then busy with his economic studies and felt, besides, that he had not yet attained fluency in English. Engels wrote the articles in Manchester, where he was employed, and sent them on to Marx in London to be edited and dispatched to New York. Thus, although Engels must be rightly considered their author, Marx took a big part in the preparation, for in their almost daily correspondence the chief points were discussed thoroughly between them. The articles appeared under Marx’s name, and it was not until much later, when the correspondence between the two life-long collaborators became available, that the true circumstances were revealed. When Marx’s daughter, Eleanor, wrote the preface to the 1896 edition she was still under the impression that Marx had written the series’ (Publisher’s Note to the 1969 edition published in London by Lawrence & Wishart).

Rubel, E42n, p. 246.

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