GRAY, Henry (1825-61). Anatomy descriptive and surgical. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858. 8° (256 x 163mm), half title, 363 wood-engraved illustrations after Henry Vandyke Carter, many hand-coloured, 4 pages of publisher's advertisments at the end (2F2 with clean tear in lower margin just touching text, lower margin of index leaf 3B brittle with a few short tears, a few light spots). Original publisher's cloth (skilfully rebacked with old spine neatly relaid, extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. A partly hand-coloured copy of 'the standard handbook on anatomy for the English speaking world. More than a century after its first publication, Gray's work continues to be published in revised editions' (Norman). Garrison-Morton 418; Norman 939.