[MARX, KARL]. Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1896.
FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (22.5 x 14 x 4 cm); pp. xxxi, 816. English text, translated from the third German edition by Samual Moore and Edward Aveling, and edited by Frederick Engels. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth covers with gilt spine titles; patterned endpapers; half-title; printed footnotes; tables. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square, the hinges and joints intact. Slight marks to covers, the spine ends moderately bumped. Interior well-preserved - a few leaves with trivial marginal stains. Without previous ownership markings. Scarce and desirable thus.
Notes: A foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy. In modern terms, it is one of the most influential works in political and economic thought. This offering is the fifth British edition (January 1896), reprinting the text of the first, which was issued in two volumes in 1886. This edition also happens to be the final British printing of the nineteenth century.
