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108 MARX, Karl, & Friedrich Engels. “Manifiesto Comunista de 1848. Precedido de un prólogo de sus autores.” [In:] La Emancipación. Periodico socialista. Defensor de la Internacional. [Numbers 72–77.] Madrid: de la viuda é hijos de Alvarez, November–December 1872 The first appearance in Spanish of the communist manifesto First appearance of the Communist Manifesto in Spanish, published within six issues of La Emancipación , the official organ of the New Madrid Federation of the International. Issued every Saturday as a four-page folio news sheet, the text of the Manifesto was printed in two columns across the lower half of each page of numbers 72–77, with separate pagination, effectively printed as two pages on the lower portion of each page, designed to be cut out and kept as a
booklet, with other texts following in later numbers. The Manifesto itself fills 22 pages, with two additional texts “La Propriedad” (16 pages) and “Manifesto inaugural de la Asociación internacional de los trabajadores” (7 pages) continuing in later issues (the present copy of the journal ends with number 80, p. 14 of “La Propriedad”). The paper ceased publication with number 91. The translator, José Mesa, co-founder of the Internationale in Spain, based his translation of sections I and II on a French text, revised by Engels, that had appeared in Le Socialiste in New York in 1872. Sections III and IV were translated from the German edition of 1872 (Andréas, 72), as well as the authors’ preface of 24 June 1872. Andréas notes that there are a small number of changes, omissions, and free translations, concluding that this first Spanish translation of the Manifesto is not absolutely complete. WorldCat and Andréas together locate just five copies, at the National Library of Spain, The Feltrinelli Foundation in
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