A fine dark impression of Pieter van den Keere’s map of the county of Cheshire which was published in the miniature Speed. The success of the folio edition of John Speed’s atlas led the publisher George Humble to consider publishing a miniature version. In the early 1620s he acquired a series of 44 copper plates engraved by Pieter van den Keere which had remained unpublished until Willem Blaeu published an edition of William Camden’s ‘Britannia’ in 1617. For Humble’s first edition in 1627 he expanded the number of plates to 63. This is one of the original plates from c.1599. It was published in the ‘England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Described’. As the work had the same publisher as the folio edition it would come to be known as the ‘miniature Speed’. Various editions up to 1676 were published. King (2024) Humble 1619; Shirley (2004) T.Kee 1d; Skelton (1970) no. 17; Whitaker (1942) 41.