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  • 22 - English law books and legal publishing

  • from VERNACULAR TRADITIONS
  • Edited by John Barnard, University of Leeds, D. F. McKenzie, University of Oxford
  • With Maureen Bell, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    14 November 2002, pp 474-503

  • Summary

    William Fulbecke, in 1600, divided law books into four categories, one of them was the undigested primary sources of the law: that is, the ever growing body of acts of Parliament and reports of cases. This chapter focuses on English law book and history of the arrangements for law printing from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of William III. Control of legal publishing was exercised both through the law printers' monopolistic rights, granted by letters patent (to Richard Tottell and John More), and the nascent concept of intellectual property which developed alongside them, and through a judicial licensing system. The chapter explores the workings of law publishing by looking at two projects: one concerned with statutes (Pulton's Statutes, 1618) and the other with case-law (the great yearbook project, 1671-80), for which background information has by chance survived.