Report on the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom for 1855-56
By: Henry James, Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Engineers
Contributors: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey; Epstean Collection of Books on Photography and Its Applications in the Graphic Arts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: [Ordnance Survey]
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Southampton]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Printing; Maps; Specimens; Great Britain. Ordnance Survey; Great Britain
Notes: "Lieutenant-Colonel James to the Inspector-General of Fortifications, submitting statements of the progress of the Ordnance Surveys of the United Kingdom, and of the amounts required to be inserted in the estimates for the year 1857-58, and other information connected with the surveys."

Includes map specimens demonstrating different printing methods: electrotype, photographic reduction, hill sketching, hill shading, engraving, lithography, zincography, and anastatic process.

Rare Book copy: Bound with Report of the progress of the Ordnance Survey and Topographical Depôt to the 31st December ..., 1858-1863.