Gray, Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical, 1883
Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical. By Henry Gray, F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lecturer on Anatomy at St. George’s Hospital Medical School. With an Introduction on General Anatomy and Development. By T. Holmes, M.A. Cantab. Surgeon to St. George’s Hospital: Mem. Corresp. De La Soc. De Chir. De Paris. The Drawings by H. V. Carter, M.D. Later Demonstrator of Anatomy at St. George’s Hospital. With Additional Drawings in Later Editions. Edited by T. Pickering Pick, Surgeon to St. George’s Hospital: Examiner in Anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons of England. A New American From the Tenth English Edition. To Which is Added Landmarks, Medical and Surgical. By Luther Holden, F.R.C.S. With Additions by William W. Keen, M.D. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea’s Son & Co. 1883.
Original pebbled cloth with gold text on spine. Corners bumped and frayed. Several additional points of cloth scuffed, split and frayed, particularly along front joint and top and bottom of spine. Rear board partially faded. Hinges reinforced at some point. Prior dealer’s penciled notes and price on ffep. Interior otherwise unmarked. A bit toned. Scattered small marginal tears and stains. Binding tight.
Ffep, title – xxxii, 1032, 4 pages of ads, rfep [pg 941 is title page of second work]
Gray’s Anatomy was first published in 1858 and remains a standard reference work, now in its 43rd edition as of January 2026. See Heirs 1914 (1858 1st edition): “The author's opening statement in the Preface reads: "This work is intended to furnish the Student and Practitioner with an accurate view of the Anatomy of the Human Body, and more especially the application of this science to Practical Surgery." The success of that intention for more than a century could be proclaimed by generations of medical students and doctors of medicine in the English-speaking world. Gray was lecturer on anatomy at St. George's Hospital, London, and this lasting and monumental work, produced by a young man who died young, must be compared to the Fabrica of Vesalius, who produced his great work before the age of thirty years.”
