The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame

by Ruth Richardson

Book Overview

This is the story of how the young and ambitious Mr Henry Gray and the talented, diffident Mr Henry Vandyke Carter, created the 'Doctor's Bible.' In Ruth Richardson's vivid account of the making of Gray's Anatomy, we encounter too the publishers, the wood engravers whose craft would soon vanish, the printer, and even the women who folded and stitched together the book's pages. The book was rooted in the heart of Empire: ranging across the elegant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199552991
• ISBN13: 9780199552993
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.2" x 1.1" x 9.3"