Manifesto's publication date

[Lew]

In article <3.0.32.19980502153421.00702e50 at mail.miningco.com>, Jacob
Levich <jake at miningco.com> writes
>Does anyone know the precise publication date of the original (English)
>edition of the Communist Manifesto? The best I can do is narrow it down to
>February, 1848. 
>
>Jake

The original edition of the Manifesto was published in German in London.
Its cover page just has the date February 1848. It was printed between
14 and 18 February. Engels began an English translation in 1849 but did
not complete it. The first English translation was by Helen MacFarlane
in 1850 for the weekly newspaper, Red Republican. Her translation
begins: "A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout Europe..." The
"authorised" English version by Engels and Moore was first published in
1888.
-- 
Lew