India Proofs for "Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical" [later "Gray's Anatomy"]
TitleIndia Proofs for "Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical" [later "Gray's Anatomy"]
ReferenceMS0346
Level of descriptionfonds
Date1858
Creator Henry Vandyke Carter, 1831-1897, Deputy Surgeon General Indian Medical Service, Henry Gray, 1827-1861, anatomist and surgeon
Admin./ biographical historyHenry Gray was an Anatomist, General Surgeon, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1860). Gray and Henry Vandyke Carter worked together at St George’s Hospital, London. They began to collaborate to create a practical and affordable textbook to aid anatomy students and emerging surgeons. This collaboration resulted in the creation of"Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical", now known as ‘Gray’s Anatomy’.
As research for the textbook, Gray and Carter carried out many dissections together. Gray was responsible for describing the dissections for the text in the publication, and Carter was responsible for illustrating the textbook.
For more information on Gray's life and career, please visit his profile on Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:374215/one?qu=henry+gray&qf=ARCHIVES_PERSON_NAME%09Personal+Name%09Gray%2C+Henry%09Gray%2C+Henry&te=ASSET
Henry Vandyke Carter was an Anatomist and Surgeon. Vandyke Carter was a student of human and comparative anatomy at the College. Carter’s illustrations for "Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical" were engraved for the publication by Butterworth and Heath using wood blocks. The first proofs of the engravings were printed onto fine ‘India’ paper to be checked before continuing through the publication process. The book was published in 1858.
For more information on Vandyke Carter's life and career, please visit his profile on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-50532
As research for the textbook, Gray and Carter carried out many dissections together. Gray was responsible for describing the dissections for the text in the publication, and Carter was responsible for illustrating the textbook.
For more information on Gray's life and career, please visit his profile on Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ASSET$002f0$002fSD_ASSET:374215/one?qu=henry+gray&qf=ARCHIVES_PERSON_NAME%09Personal+Name%09Gray%2C+Henry%09Gray%2C+Henry&te=ASSET
Henry Vandyke Carter was an Anatomist and Surgeon. Vandyke Carter was a student of human and comparative anatomy at the College. Carter’s illustrations for "Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical" were engraved for the publication by Butterworth and Heath using wood blocks. The first proofs of the engravings were printed onto fine ‘India’ paper to be checked before continuing through the publication process. The book was published in 1858.
For more information on Vandyke Carter's life and career, please visit his profile on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-50532
Scope and ContentThis consists of one folder of the first India proofs of the engravings, made using wood engraving blocks, by Butterworth and Heath, for the first edition of "Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical" (now known as "Gray's Anatomy") 1858.
Extent1 folder
LanguageEnglish
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Related objectsRCS-SCH/22/1/1
Persons keyword Henry Vandyke Carter, 1831-1897, Deputy Surgeon General Indian Medical Service, Henry Gray, 1825-1861, anatomist
SubjectIllustration printing, Anatomy
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