Last leaf with a small damage to the lower corner. Several leaves with tiny, few millimetres artistic restoration at the margins. First few quires artistically restored at the gutter, with no effect on print space.

Pages moderately yellowed due to acidic paper.

Mounted bookplate (Liebetrau) on front endpaper, embossed collection stamp on the title page and page IX. Spine slightly rubbed at the head and the tail. His work was translated to English by the American social and political reformer, Florence Kelley (1859-1932) and was published first in the present edition, with Engels' preface, which brought the story up to date in the light of forty years' further reflection. While giving a detailed description of the daily life of miners and agricultural workers in the new industrial towns, the book contains many of Engels' important and ground-breaking early thoughts on capitalism and socialism. In his 1845 book, Engels' (1820-1895) reports on the horrible conditions of the working class in Victorian England, which he observed while living in Manchester, then at the heart of the industrial revolution, between 1842-1845. Extremely scarce, first English edition of Friedrich Engels' first book, Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England, preceded the UK edition by a year. In publisher's brown cloth, with gilt title and gilt rules on spine. This volume is reissued from the English edition of 1892, which was translated by noted social activist Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky (1859–1932).First English edition.

Extensively researched and written with sympathy for the working class, this volume is one Engels' best known works and remains a vivid portrait of contemporary urban England. Engels' highly detailed descriptions of urban conditions and contrasts between the different classes in Manchester were informed from both his own observations and his contacts with local labour activists and Chartists. This volume, first published in German in 1845, contains his classic and highly influential account of working-class life in Manchester at the height of its industrial supremacy. In 1842 Engels was sent to Manchester to oversee his father's textile business, and he lived in the city until 1844. Description Product filter button Descriptionįrederich Engels (1820–1895) was a German businessman and political theorist renowned as one of the intellectual founders of communism.

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