An early edition of the ‘miniature Speed’. ‘The small English county map plates engraved by Pieter van den Keere in about 1605 were used by Willem Blaeu for his edition of Camden’s ‘Britannia’ in 1617 with the addition of two slightly larger folding maps: those of the British Isles and Yorkshire. The plates then came into the possession of the London publisher George Humble who added further maps and reprinted them under the name of John Speed for the first of a popular series of ‘miniature Speed’ atlases’ (Shirley, of the first Humble edition). Although bearing a similar date to the first edition of 1627 the text here is reset correcting errors found. Printed also by John Dawson this edition is believed to have been issued like later editions at about the same time as the folio ‘Theatre’ which although similarly undated provides evidence of a date of issue no earlier than 1632. These are the first editions published following the death of John Speed in 1629. Provenance: private English collection. Burden (2007); Shirley (2004) T.Kee 1e; Skelton (1970) no. 19; STC (1986) no. 23036.