Das Kapital in the British Library, London. At the time of his death (1883), Marx had prepared the manuscript for "Das Kapital, Volume IV", a critical history of theories of surplus value of his time, the nineteenth century. The philosopher Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) published a partial edition of Marx's surplus-value critique and later published a full, three-volume edition as "Theorien über den Mehrwert" ("Theories of Surplus Value", 1905–1910). The first volume was published in English as "A History of Economic Theories" (1952). "Capital, Volume I" (1867) was published in Marx’s lifetime, but he died in 1883 before completing the manuscripts for "Capital,
Theories of Surplus Value 1472) running to some 200 printed sheets in length: it is the first systematically worked out draft – though still only rough and incomplete – of all four volumes of "Capital". "Theories of Surplus Value" forms the longest (about 110 printed sheets) and most fully elaborated part of this huge manuscript, and it is the first and only draft of the fourth, concluding volume of "Capital". Marx called this volume, as distinguished from the three theoretical volumes of "Das Kapital", the historical, historico-critical, or historico-literary part of his work. Marx began to write "Theories of Surplus Value" within the framework