Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical (Gray's Anatomy) -- first American edition

The true first edition of the work is London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858, by Henry Gray with illustrations by Henry Vandyke Carter. The Philadelphia Blanchard and Lea printing described here is the first American edition, issued about a year later as an imprint of the English edition before Blanchard and Lea had purchased full American rights — which they did for the first AUTHORIZED American edition of 1862 (the first of some twenty-five distinct American editions).