Editing Gray's Anatomy (section)

=== American editions ===
The full American rights were purchased by Blanchard and Lea, who published the first of twenty-five<ref group=lower-alpha>This count excludes the previously mentioned 1859 US publication of the English first edition.</ref> distinct American editions of ''Gray's Anatomy'' in 1862, and whose company became [[Lea & Febiger]] in 1908. Lea & Febiger continued publishing the American editions until the company was sold in 1990.<ref>[http://www.tehistory.org/hqda/html/v37/v37n2p063.html#LEA Lea & Febiger] in Tredyffrin East Town Historical Society ''History Quarterly'' Digital Archives, pp. 68–70 (Source: April 1999, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 63–70)</ref>

The first American publication was edited by Richard James Dunglison, whose father [[Robley Dunglison]] was physician to [[Thomas Jefferson]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091019104425/http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/AISR/Forum/03/09/articles/grays.html "Gray's Anatomy: The Jefferson Years"] in ''Jeffline Forum'', September 2003</ref> Dunglison edited the next four editions. These were: the ''Second American Edition'' (February 1862); the ''New Third American from the Fifth English Edition'' (May 1870); the ''New American from the Eighth English Edition'' (July 1878); and the ''New American from the Tenth English Edition'' (August 1883). [[William Williams Keen|W. W. Keen]] edited the next two editions, namely: the ''New American from the Eleventh English Edition'' (September 1887); and the ''New American from the Thirteenth English Edition'' (September 1893).

In September 1896, reference to the English edition was dropped and it was published as the ''Fourteenth Edition'', edited by Bern B. Gallaudet, F. J. Brockway, and J. P. McMurrich, who also edited the ''Fifteenth Edition'' (October 1901). There is also an edition dated 1896 which does still reference the English edition stating it is "A New Edition, Thoroughly Revised by American Authorities, from the thirteenth English Edition" and edited by [[Thomas Pickering Pick|T. Pickering Pick]], F.R.C.S. and published by Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.<ref>Gray, ''Henry Gray's Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical'', 13th edition, 1896</ref>

The ''Sixteenth Edition'' (October 1905) was edited by J. C. DaCosta, and the ''Seventeenth'' (September 1908) by DaCosta and [[Edward Anthony Spitzka|E. A. Spitzka]]. Spitzka edited the ''Eighteenth'' (Oct. 1910) and ''Nineteenth'' (July 1913) editions, and in October 1913, R. Howden edited the ''New American from the Eighteenth English Edition''. The "American" editions then continued with consecutive numbering from the Twentieth onwards, with [[Warren Harmon Lewis|W. H. Lewis]] editing the 20th (September. 1918), 21st (August 1924), 22nd (August 1930), 23rd (July 1936), and 24th (May 1942). Charles Mayo Goss edited the 25th (August 1948), 26th (July 1954), 27th (August 1959), 28th (August 1966), and 29th (January 1973). Carmine D. Clemente edited and extensively revised the 30th edition (October 1984).<ref name="GraysAnatomy30thAmerican">{{citation | title=Gray's Anatomy | editor=Carmine D. Clemente | edition=30th | publisher=Lea & Febiger | location=Philadelphia | year=1985 | isbn=0-8121-0644-X | url=https://archive.org/details/anatomyofhumanbo1985gray }} pp. vi–ix</ref> With the sale of Lea & Febiger in 1990, the 30th edition was the last American Edition.