Father Faber's Works
A brief circulation report on the translated writings of the English Catholic writer Frederick William Faber, showing their remarkable international sales across Europe by 1870.
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The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870 · Page 2
1 min readThe sale of the translated works of Father Faber, including those circulated in Belgium, but not the six thousand copies published in Flemish, has reached the prodigious total of 83,500 copies. Germany has taken for her share 52,250 copies of the same works. Ten thousand have been sold in Italy and Spain, while in Russia, not including Catholic Poland, we learn with surprise that the circulation has reached forty-four thousand. Up to this time, therefore, the total number of copies of Father Faber's works actually sold exceeds three hundred thousand, and the sale continues daily. — Dublin Review.
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