Marx, Karl.

8vo (217 x 134mm.), 3 volumes in 4, first editions, volume 1 in calf-backed marbled boards, volume 2 in contemporary cloth with spine lettered in gilt, both parts of volume 3 in contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards with marbled edges, each volume with modern buckram chemise in a single red morocco-backed slipcase, extremities slightly rubbed with a few small repairs

Theodor E. Heisenfein (?), inscription on flyleaf of volume 1

PMM 359 (volume 1 only); Rubel 633, 635 & 636

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A complete set of the first editions of Marx's polemical masterpiece of political economy, of which only the first volume was published in his lifetime; the rest were seen through the press by Engels. It was the summation of over twenty years research in the reading rooms of the British Museum, and followed on from his earlier work Zur Kritik der Politisches Oekonomie, printed in 1859.