Publishing Date of an Old Book

I was given a copy of Fr. Faber's Precious Blood. It appears to have spent some time at Holy Family College Library in Torresdale, Philadelphia, Pa. Clearly, it is an old copy with astonishingly crisp and clean pages. It appears to have been checked out 3 times in 1965, and once in 1971. The only clue of a publishing date is from the first page. In part, it reads, Republished from Abbance Sheets with the approbation of the Most Reverend, the Archbishop of Baltimore. Twenty-third American Edition. John Murphy Company, Publishers. Baltimore, MD. New York:

Preceding the first chapter is a letter addressed TO THE MEMBERS Of the Confraternity of the Most Precious Blood in the Church of the London Oratory. It is signed by Fr. Faber, The London Oratory, Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul 1860.

Any help in dating this work? I've just begun reading it. Speaking of Salvation, Fr. Faber writes, "Yet even if the sinner could go through life with the gay indifference to which he pretends, he is not to be envied. It is only a sleep, a lethargy, or a madness,-one or the other of these according to his natural disposition. For there must be an awakening at last ; and when and where will it be? They that walk in their sleep are sometimes wakened if they put their foot into cold water. What if the sinner's awakening should be from the first touch of the fire that burns beyond the grave?"

I was published in 1860.

That's a great book! Fr. Faber is one of my favorite reads. How far have you gotten into The Precious Blood?

MRyan wrote:I was published in 1860.

Actually, "I" was not published, but "It" was.

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I guess what I want to know is the age of a twenty third American edition of Precious Blood.

Roguejim wrote:I was given a copy of Fr. Faber's Precious Blood. It appears to have spent some time at Holy Family College Library in Torresdale, Philadelphia, Pa. Clearly, it is an old copy with astonishingly crisp and clean pages. It appears to have been checked out 3 times in 1965, and once in 1971. The only clue of a publishing date is from the first page. In part, it reads, Republished from Abbance Sheets with the approbation of the Most Reverend, the Archbishop of Baltimore. Twenty-third American Edition. John Murphy Company, Publishers. Baltimore, MD. New York:

Preceding the first chapter is a letter addressed TO THE MEMBERS Of the Confraternity of the Most Precious Blood in the Church of the London Oratory. It is signed by Fr. Faber, The London Oratory, Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul 1860.

Any help in dating this work? I've just begun reading it. Speaking of Salvation, Fr. Faber writes, "Yet even if the sinner could go through life with the gay indifference to which he pretends, he is not to be envied. It is only a sleep, a lethargy, or a madness,-one or the other of these according to his natural disposition. For there must be an awakening at last ; and when and where will it be? They that walk in their sleep are sometimes wakened if they put their foot into cold water. What if the sinner's awakening should be from the first touch of the fire that burns beyond the grave?"

It should say Republished from Advance Sheets.