NMLP P-038286 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (The Communist Manifesto)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels · Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, printed by J. E. Burghard, London · 1848

The 1888 Reeves is the great trap. Reeves reused the 1888 stereotype plates for pages 3–31 across all his later English impressions, altering only the title page and terminal advertisement leaf — so "1888" remains printed on the title page of impressions issued for decades afterwards. Recorded examples include a "Fourth edition" bearing 1888 but probably printed in 1907, and a "Sixth Impression" bearing 1888 but dated 1927. Read the impression statement and the printed price statement on the wrapper, not the 1888 date. Modern reprints of the Moore translation are ubiquitous.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038286 for "Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (The Communist Manifesto)" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038286, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).