"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.