A scientific and artistic triumph, Gray's Anatomy is one of the most iconic anatomical books ever to be printed – reproduced here as it appeared in 1858, with Henry Vandyke Carter's original illustrations alongside Henry Gray's text.
The thoroughly illustrated pages of Gray's Anatomy have guided readers through the body for generations, but it is Carter's engravings that are the reason the book endures. Drawn from dissections he and Gray carried out at St George's Hospital in London, they turned a students' manual into something closer to a work of art.
Gray and Carter were both young men when the first edition appeared, and set out simply to make an affordable, accurate guide for students of surgery and anatomy. Over the past 150 years, revised and reissued many times over, it became the most famous anatomy book in the world.
This edition presents the 1858 text and illustrations as they were first printed, complete with additional writing on the art and history of anatomy.
Book Features:
- A facsimile of the 1858 edition of Henry Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical.
- Over 300 wood-engraved figures by Henry Vandyke Carter, drawn from dissections at St George's Hospital, London.
- Henry Gray's full descriptive and surgical text as first published.
- The foundational reference of modern Western anatomical teaching.
- A unique gift book for medical students, doctors, and lovers of anatomical art and illustration.